"Ball of the Century Nomination"- Twitter reacts to Yasir Shah bowling a ripper to dismiss well-set Kusal Mendis on Day 3
The third day of the first Test between Sri Lanka and Pakistan is underway. The hosts, with a lead of just four runs in the first innings, batted really well in their second innings. The Sri Lankan batters held their composure against some good bowling from both Pakistani spinners.
Mohammad Nawaz and Yasir Shah bowled very tight lines and the pitch also made some of the balls very lethal that looked unplayable. And one such delivery was bowled by the veteran leg-spinner Yasir Shah, who dismissed the well-settled Kusal Mendir, who was batting 76 runs and was looking to get a big score.
Yasir bowled a ripper that turned a country mile, from way down to the leg-stump and hit the off-stump. This happened on the first ball of the 56th over of the Sri Lankan second innings. The leg-spinner bowled that turned from leg-side and squared Mendis up to take the off-stumps.
Ball of the century nomination please!
— Islamabad United (@IsbUnited) July 18, 2022
Yasir Shah, the magician 🎩 #SLvPAK Gif: @taimoorze pic.twitter.com/Z0Yu7uNrZf
Many fans also made the similarities to the delivery bowled by the late Shane Warne to Mike Gatting in 1994, which was termed as the "Ball of the Century". This is also the comeback match for Yasir, and he has done a really good job so far with the ball. He took two wickets in the first innings.
He has taken three wickets in the second as well. Sri Lanka's lead has crossed the 270-run mark. with two wickets in hand. So it will be interesting to see how long the hosts can stretch the lead and how Babar Azam and his team will revert to this chase.
What a wonderful delivery by #YasirShah set batter and #SriLankan #Skipper was not able to read the magical delivery of #YasirShah #SLvPAK #PAKvsSL #PAKvSL pic.twitter.com/MnvOtM2OQC
— Tabish Mir (@TabishMir_) July 18, 2022
Beauty From Yasir Shah
— ᴍᴀʜᴀᴍ ꜰᴀᴛɪᴍᴀ (@MahamOfficial_2) July 18, 2022
"This Should be in Ball Of The Century Category"#Cricket pic.twitter.com/zvgG2ClpCc
It happened today...Yasir Shah.. shades of the late Shane Warne pic.twitter.com/f6rXeJrnB9
— KC 🇵🇸 (@Waqar92KC) July 18, 2022
What a ripper from Yasir Shah!!!
— Shadev Pundir (@pundirshadev1) July 18, 2022
Ball of the century ✌👌#PAKvsSL #SLvPAK #KingKohli #CricketTwitter #BabarAzam𓃵 pic.twitter.com/g09SXnNQg7
Beauty from Yasir Shah like Shane Warne's Ball to Gatting ... pic.twitter.com/EKNgpZqZl6
— Taimoor Zaman (@taimoorze) July 18, 2022
Shane warne who? https://t.co/ILfVEIiQ0l
— Ali Mansoor (@aliiiii_mansoor) July 18, 2022
Almost same like @ShaneWarne ball of the century.#PakistanZindabad https://t.co/HV5MjyE0RT
— Zaka Gellani (@GellaniZaka) July 18, 2022