T20 Blast 2022: Rilee Rossouw gained the Player of the Match after he scored 93 runs off 36 balls in Somerset’s quarter-final match towards Derbyshire in Taunton.
Rilee Rossouw of Somerset. Courtesy: Somerset Cricket Twitter
HIGHLIGHTSRilee Rossouw scored 36 runs towards leg-spinner Matthew McKiernanRilee Rossouw turned the Player of the Match after scoring 93 off 36 ballsSomerset beat Derbyshire by 191 runs in Taunton
Somerset’s Rilee Rossouw, on Saturday, July 9, went berserk and scored 36 runs off one over within the quarter-final match towards Derbyshire within the T20 Blast 2022. The southpaw took leg-spinner Matthew McKiernan to the cleaners on the Cooper Associates County Ground in Taunton. The left-hander began the over with two colossal sixes, after which he smashed a 4.
Thereafter, the bowler gave away two runs off a no-ball, following which the batter completed the over with three sixes in a row. From 155 for 2 after being put in to bat first, Somerset raced to 191. Rossouw scored 93 runs off 36 balls with eight fours and 7 sixes, serving to his workforce rating 265 for 5 in 20 overs. McKiernan, within the meantime, leaked 82 runs off 4 overs at an economic system fee of 20.50.
36 off the over #WeAreSomerset #SOMvDER pic.twitter.com/vH9Jc7FaFF
— Somerset Cricket (@SomersetCCC) July 9, 2022
Somerset registered the best T20 rating in England and the fifth-highest in all T20s. Along with Rossouw, Tom Banton additionally took aside the Derbyshire bowling after he racked up a 41-ball 73 with 4 fours and 6 sixes.
After racking up the collosal rating, Somerset bowled Derbyshire out for 74 in 11.2 overs. Peter Siddle and Ben Green picked up three wickets apiece for Somerset. Lewis Gregory accounted for 2 scalps as Somerset gained the match by 191 runs.
It occurred to be the best profitable margin within the historical past of English T20 cricket and the third-highest ever. Rossouw gained the Player of the Match for the superlative knock, though he fell in need of a well-deserved century after George Scrimshaw dismissed him.
Somerset will now face Hampshire within the second semi-final on Saturday, July 16 at Edgbaston in Birmingham.
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