While most athletes world wide play sports activities to win, there are a handful of them who care extra for the sportsmanship related to it and do not care if displaying it on the sphere outcomes in a dropping trigger. New Zealand’s Colin Munro is one of these handful of athletes who worth being sport greater than being good on the sport.
Munro, who’s the skipper of Desert Vipers in the continuing version of the ILT20, displayed sportsmanship of the highest order in a conflict in opposition to Sharjah Warriors on Sunday (January 28) and gained one million hearts of sports activities fanatics all world wide.
The incident unfolded on the primary supply of the twelfth over. Joe Denly of Warriors smashed a flighted supply from Shadab Khan down the bottom and it struck his teammate Martin Guptill who was on the non-striker’s finish.
Guptill tried to take evasive motion however could not escape the shot as it hit him on his proper hand. Guptill ventured out of the crease whereas transferring out of the path of the ball however to his distress, the ball ricocheted off his proper glove and went to Shadab. The wily leg spinner did not hesitate even for a second earlier than whipping the bails off the groove, and Guptill was discovered quick of his crease.
However, Guptill’s compatriot Munro got here to his rescue and withdrew the enchantment to offer him a brand new lease of life.
Watch the video of Colin Munro’s sportsmanship act:
Though, Guptill, who was batting at 29 off 21 balls on the time of the incident could not capitalise on the chance and obtained out to Shaheen Shah Afridi two overs later. Warriors ended up scoring 174 for the loss of seven wicket and gained the sport by seven runs after their bowlers stored Vipers restricted to 167 in their 20 overs.
