Three Bay Of Plenty Players Grab World Cricket Headlines

Posted: Thursday, 8 November 2018

By the end of Wednesday the 7th November 2018 - three home-grown Bay of Plenty cricket players had grabbed World Cricket Headlines.

Joe Carter and Brett Hampton tore one Central Districts bowler apart to finish with a new List A (fifty over per side) world record of 43 runs in an over.

Carter and Hampton, came together when ND were in deep trouble at 95 for the loss of five wickets, in their Ford Trophy clash with CD at Seddon Park in Hamilton.

The onslaught took place in the 46th over, off the bowling of Willem Ludick, as the pair put the tar-seal outside Seddon Park under attack. Hampton hit the first delivery for four, before he despatched back-to-back no balls for consecutive sixes. Hampton struck a further six, before hitting a single to give Carter the strike. Carter continued the hitting, delivering three consecutive sixes to round out the 43-run over.

The mammoth over surpassed the previous List A world record of 39, which was set in Dhaka by Elton Chigumbura off the bowling of Alauddin Babu in 2013.

The Bay of Plenty pair shared a 178-run partnership off 126 balls, to guide Northern Districts to 313/7 off their 50 overs. Hampton fell just short of his century, departing for 95 from 66 balls, while Carter brought up his hundred with a six in the last over to finish unbeaten on 102 from 77 balls, his first List A century.

Central Districts made a determined challenge for victory and reached 288/9 in their allotted overs.

It is not the first time that the two big hitting Bay batsmen have combined to blast the opposition out of the match. In January 2013, Bay of Plenty smashed 701 against Hamilton in a Hawke Cup Direct Challenge played in enemy territory, which is believed to be the highest Hawke Cup Direct Challenge score since the competition began.

Joe Carter smashed Simons Winter’s previous record of the Bay of Plenty highest score of 181 when he was adjudged lbw for 187. The new record last just a few hours as Brett Hampton powered past Carter’s new mark, before also falling to a leg before decision for 194.

Just when the news was sinking in about the new List A World record, a report from the other side of the world relayed news that Trent Boult had claimed an ODI hat-trick, in the Black Caps first One-Day Game against Pakistan in Abu Dhabi.

Trent became the fifth New Zealander to claim an ODI hat-trick in the game. Boult struck in just the third over of the match, removing Pakistan’s three key batsmen in Fakhar Zaman, Babar Azam and Mohammad Hafeez in successive deliveries.

They were three quality pieces of cricket too. The left-armer had the ball to swinging and first clean bowed Zaman, then had Azam caught by Ross Taylor at a wide slip, before finishing the triple strike by trapping Hafeez LBW.

Boult joins Shane Bond, Emily Drumm, Julie Harris and Danny Morrison in the exclusive club of Kiwis and becomes the 46th male player in history to claim a men's ODI hat-trick.

(Thanks to NZ Cricket and Northern Districts Cricket for the match reports)

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