WATCH: Scotland collect boundary despite ball hitting the stumps

Over the past few years, bails have gotten more and more rigid and, due to the same reason, we’ve seen plenty of instances of batters surviving despite the ball hitting the stumps. 

Remember this ball that Cameron Green bowled to Ben Stokes in the 2021/22 Ashes? The ball shattered into the stumps at a good 135 clicks, but the bails were unmoved. Stokes survived. 

In the first Test between England and Pakistan in Multan, Harry Brook survived after the bails did not fall despite the ball rolling back onto the stumps. 

So batters surviving despite getting ‘bowled’ has become somewhat of a common occurrence.

But in a one-in-a-million occurrence in the T20 World Cup 2024 game between Scotland Women and England Women on October 13 (Sunday), Scotland’s Katherine Fraser collected a boundary after seeing the ball clatter onto the stumps. 

In the 19th over of the first innings, trying to up the run rate, Fraser tried to slog Nat Sciver-Brunt across the line but only succeeded in getting a feather back onto the stumps. 

The bails lit up, and, for a moment, England and Sciver-Brunt thought that they had got their seventh wicket of the day. 

However, to their utter bewilderment, the bails did not fall off, and the ball ended up racing to the fine-leg boundary. Sciver-Brunt could not believe her eyes. As was the case with wicketkeeper Amy Jones, who initially started celebrating thinking that Fraser had been dismissed. 

The moment was best summed up by the reaction of Sophie Ecclestone, who just let out a big smile in disbelief. 

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Image courtesy: ICC 

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