Batting all-rounder with the Pigotts Crushers Essan Warner said he was responding to a dare by the opposing wicketkeeper, Junior Henry, when he smashed six sixes in one over against Rising Sun in the first innings of their Two Day Championship match last weekend.
Warner smashed six huge maximums off the bowling of spinner Chad Walsh, as he amassed 76 from 40 deliveries to help guide Crushers to a first innings total of 282 for two declared, and an innings and 43 wins win in the match.
“After the first ball, I was having a little chat with the keeper [Junior Henry] and after I hit the second one he asked me if I think I can hit six sixes and I said I can try. When I hit the third one he said, you have to go again. I was thinking that they [opposition] just want to get me out, but in the back of my head I was saying that I could hit six sixes. I went down to my batting partner which was Uri Smith and told him that I am going to go for it. I hit the fourth one for six and everyone started bantering and betting I couldn’t hit six sixes. But, after I hit the last two, that was when there was a big uproar and I went back to the keeper and told him that he was the one who started it,” he said.
As for the overall performance of the team thus far, Warner said that having lost some of the more experienced players to other teams, the squad needs time to find its footing.
“We have a new band of players and with the loss of Jewel and Kadeem and then the two Benta [brothers] and Elroy who moved to the various clubs, it’s like a massive loss in terms of the club. I won’t say the players we have now aren’t to the quality they were but I think it’s just more of us needing to work a bit harder on the training ground,” the player said.
Pigotts are sixth on the 10-team standings with 38 points after eight outings after winning two, losing four and drawing one. The other match ended in a no-result.
