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Stephen Fleming: one man destroyer?

By Will 4 years ago, at the end of January Leave a comment on this post

Fleming’s a good captain, and an elegant left-hander - but a destroyer? You wouldn’t bet on it, which is why it shocked me to read of his 57-ball hundred! 10 fours and 9 sixes. A little known Australian leg spinner called Warne (doesn’t give his first name) went for 26 from 3, finally getting Fleming. Anyone got any pics of the action?

UPDATE: according to Scott, this wasn’t an official ODI; why not (when the other charity bashes have been)?

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4 Responses to “Stephen Fleming: one man destroyer?”

  • Scott Wickstein wrote:
    January 23rd, 2005 at 12.12 pm

    Murali went for 57 from his 3. I’ve seen some bowlers treated bad, I’ve even been caned myself, but I never seen anyone get done over like what Fleming did to Murali. It was brutal stuff.

  • Gaurav wrote:
    January 23rd, 2005 at 4.58 pm

    Firstly, Murali was hit for 7 sixes and 57 runs in 3 overs !!! Being already a low-scoring game and with the amount of funds donated proportional to the scores and the number of sixes hit, it is not entirely inconceivable that Murali intentionally threw up a lot of balls (pun not intended) so as to maximise the donations for is ravaged country - Not something you would like in an official match is it ??
    Also, the team had ppl like Knight, Spearman, Hick, Rhodes, Klusener, Warne etc - an average age of 33 at least - not a team that could say to represent the “rest of the world” is it ? Hence the lack of official status.
    Besides this was organized by the NZ cricket board and not the ICC

  • Will wrote:
    January 25th, 2005 at 11.23 pm

    Scott was his innings caught on tape? Would love to see it

  • Scott Wickstein wrote:
    January 26th, 2005 at 8.43 am

    You’d have to get in touch with Sky NZ- if they are anything like the Nine Network in Australia they will be flogging DVD copies soon.


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