{"id":4263,"date":"2018-01-23T17:11:54","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T11:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.smartworld.asia\/?p=4263"},"modified":"2018-01-23T17:13:46","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T11:43:46","slug":"jp-duminy-breaks-south-african-cricket-record-taking-37-runs-off-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/jp-duminy-breaks-south-african-cricket-record-taking-37-runs-off-one\/","title":{"rendered":"JP Duminy breaks a South African cricket record after taking 37 runs off one over"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former South African batsman JP Duminy has broken a 33-year-old record in the South African List A competition for the most runs scored in an over.<\/h2>\n

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Duminy belted Eddie Leie all around the park scoring 37 runs from five sixes, a no-ball that went for four and a double.<\/p>\n

Only Zimbabwe’s Elton Chigumbura has scored more in single over during a 50 over match when he scored 39 runs against Bangladesh’s Alauddin Babu in 2013.<\/p>\n

Playing for the Cape Cobras and chasing down the VKB Knights score of 240, Duminy’s side were sitting at 208\/2 when he unleashed.
\nDuminy hit four straight sixes off Leie’s bowling and ran two runs on the fifth ball.<\/p>\n

Leie’s sixth delivery was a no-ball which was hit for a boundary before Duminy smashed another six off the final ball of the over.<\/p>\n

In other words the over flowed as shown: 6-6-6-6-2-5nb-6.<\/p>\n

Speaking afterwards Duminy admitted he was trying to hit six sixes in the over.<\/p>\n

“It is not every day you get the opportunity, so of course I was trying to go for the six sixes in an over… so I just decided to take Eddie on.<\/p>\n

“It was enjoyable,” he said.<\/p>\n

The 33-year-old smashed the first four balls for maximums. Then he hit the fifth delivery for a couple. The sixth ball by Leie was a no-ball which was hit for a four through extra cover by the South African.<\/p>\n

Duminy retired from Test and first-class cricket last September after he was dropped from the national side.<\/p>\n

He played 129 one-day matches for the Proteas scoring 4668 runs with an average of 37.64.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former South African batsman JP Duminy has broken a 33-year-old record in the South African List A competition for the most runs scored in an over. Duminy belted Eddie Leie all around the park scoring 37 runs from five sixes, a no-ball that went for four and a double. Only Zimbabwe’s Elton Chigumbura has scored …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"two_page_speed":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1338],"tags":[6271,6270],"class_list":["post-4263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-cricket-news","tag-jp-duminy","tag-south-african"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}