‘Mind-blowing’ history stuns cricket world

England star Jonny Bairstow delivered a stunning innings as he helped lead his team into the T20 record books in wild scenes.

Shashank Singh also impressed with the bat, making 68 not out off 28 balls with eight sixes and two fours. “Cricket has turned to baseball hasn’t it?” said Punjab captain Sam Curran. “Guys can hit balls for long periods of time, the coaches, training, the dew, dot balls become wide after reviews and you get the extra ball. Stats are going out of the window.”

“This match, the way Jonny batted was a huge positive. It was a great learning for me, we still have five more matches to go.”Opening the Punjab innings, Bairstow put on 93 runs with impact sub Prabhsimran Singh and another 85 runs with South Africa’s Rilee Rossouw . Earlier, Kolkata got off to a blistering start with Phil Salt and Narine sharing 138 runs off just 69 balls for the first wicket after being put in to bat.Narine, dropped on 16, hammered four sixes and nine fours in his 32-ball 71 before holing out to Bairstow off leg spinner Rahul Chahar.

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