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Just after eight o’clock on Thursday night, with the Hobart sky powder blue above the lights, umpire Paul Wilson began to whirl his right arm in the familiar PowerPlay gesture, before abruptly switching to three full rotations of his left, stern-faced but still jaunty, like a policeman forced to dance at the Notting Hill carnival.
In that moment history was made. This was cricket’s first Power Surge.
The surge is one of three much-trailed “innovations” in this year’s Big Bash tournament. It was an OK surge, as it happened. Tim David clumped some boundaries off Steve O’Keefe’s left-arm spin, bowled from such a low trajectory these days he runs to the wicket like a man hailing a late-night taxi. Jordan Silk produced the most astoundingly brilliant piece of fielding you’ll ever see, a one-handed full-levitation over-the-rope grab plus high-precision Superma
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Smell the money: Umpires carry deodorant branding under armpits in Australia’s Big Bash League
Armpit advertising is cricket marketing going where it has never gone before. Quite literally. Updated Dec 12, 2020 · 12:56 pm Umpire Paul Wilson | Cricket Australia / Twitter
The 10th edition of Big Bash League, Australia’s T20 tournament, is set to be a unique one in many ways. The Power Surge, X-Factor and Bash Boost are new rule changes that have been introduced to spice things up in the tournament.
But the innovations Down Under did not stop there. The umpires are carrying the branding of a popular deodorant brand undeneath their armpits which the world will get to see every time they signal a six or a wicket or a bye.
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