Extremely weird: Zimbabwe’s Sean Williams on no-ball drama

Sean Williams after being dismissed for 64 against Bangladesh yesterday. Pic/AFP

Veteran Zimbabwe batter Sean Williams described the last-ball drama as "extremely weird" after Bangladesh pulled off a win in a game of changing fortunes in the T20 World Cup here on Sunday.

In an unprecedented incident, players of both the teams were called back from the dugout after the game's last delivery was deemed a no-ball by the umpires at the Gabba.

"It was extremely weird. Obviously I've never experienced something like that in a cricket match before, but again, it just goes to show in a T20 game, there's always a little bit of hope; anything can happen," Williams said.

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Requiring five in the last ball, Blessing Muzarabani was stumped by wicketkeeper Nurul Hasan off Mosaddek Hossain's bowling, as the Bangladeshi players and fans broke into a celebration.

Stumps were uprooted and the players were back in the dugout after shaking hands, but just then the TV umpires declared the final ball as a no-ball after finding Nurul to be guilty of collecting the ball fractionally in front of the stumps, making the stumping invalid.

Brief scores
Bangladesh 150-7 (N Shanto 71, A Hossain 29; B Muzarabani 2-13, R Ngarava 2-24) beat Zimbabwe 147-8 (S Williams 64; T Ahmed 3-19, M Rahman 2-15, M Hossain 2-34) by three runs

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