Watch: Fan Holds On To Catch While Falling Over Seats At The Hundred

Birmingham Phoenix captain Liam Livingstone remained unbeaten on 92 runs off 40 balls to assist his workforce beat Northern Superchargers in The Hundred on Tuesday. One of many 10 sixes he hit landed within the stands and the ball was caught fairly spectacularly by a fan at the same time as he fell over a seat however balanced himself by climbing over the row of seats in entrance of him. The fan obtained loud cheers from his fellow spectators at the same time as he acknowledged the applause and celebrated the catch.

Nice night time of leisure once more in #TheHundred

Solely factor higher than all of Liam Livingstone’s sixes have been the gang catches at Headingley. Catch of the night time right here pic.twitter.com/6oTte47nxp

— Tom Hyland (@TomHyland4) August 17, 2021

That catch could have given the Superchargers some hope if not for it being grabbed on the fallacious facet of the boundary.

Chasing 144 off 100 balls, Phoenix strolled on their approach to the goal courtesy of a 106-run second-wicket stand between Finn Allen (42 off 26) and Livingstone and received in simply 74 balls.

This win despatched Pheonix to the highest of the factors desk with 12 factors from six matches. Superchargers, however, are positioned fifth with seven factors from eight video games.

Earlier, Livingstone starred with the ball too as he returned 3 for 25 from 20 balls, dismissing Superchargers’ opener Chris Lynn, their captain David Willey and Dane Vilas, and in addition contributed within the run out of Superchargers’ prime scorer Tom Kohler-Cadmore (71).

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Adam Milne and Ben Howell bought two wickets every for Phoenix as Superchargers have been restricted to a middling complete.

Livingstone has appeared in three ODIs and eight T20Is for England since his worldwide debut in a T20I vs South Africa in 2017.