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Baseball Banger hits century in cricket on full England debut

by Joe Gray

GbHlSqThose of us who survived  miserable Somerset weather conditions back in October 2008 to watch the Great Britain national team take on a team of cricketers led by Marcus Trescothick may have been slightly disappointed when some big-name players dropped off the billing. It could have proved either a humbling or a revelatory experience for Kevin Pietersen – for instance – to switch his flat blade for a round bat, if he had made it from the original press release all the way onto the diamond.

The Bangers – as Tresco’s testimonial team was named – did, however, hold a star in the making in its line-up. That man was Craig Kieswetter, and he today smashed 143 in cricket on his full debut for England, with the South African-born basher helping himself to six 6s along the way.

This caused me to return to my scoresheet from the game. I remember that he had scattered fire for a little while on the mound and I seemed to recall hearing that he had some experience of baseball going into the exhibition match. One glance confirmed that he knew what he was doing. Batting clean-up he successfully executed a sacrifice bunt, something that would be pretty odd and highly dangerous to effect (I’m thinking broken fingers) without some training.

Good luck to him and the England cricket team.

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Matt Smith February 24, 2010 - 11:00 pm

I did wonder whether he had played in the ‘Bangers’ game. Good to see that England’s possible new star has some baseball background to refer to!

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