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Gurus, Power Surges and problem-solvers: Big Bash bids to be T20 s biggest hitter Barney Ronay 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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