A fine start for Mascarenhas
- 5 Feb 08, 10:28 AM
Dimitri Mascarenhas has always been highly regarded in Hampshire – and by Shane Warne in particular – but until he smashed Yuvraj Singh for five consecutive sixes at The Oval last summer, he had failed to make an impression in an England shirt.
But how his team was indebted to him today. Coming in to bat with England teetering on 117-5 in the 14th over, he carted Jeetan Patel, the off-spinner, for four successive - and increasingly towering - sixes over long-on. His 31 came from only 14 balls, and although England’s total still looked potentially vulnerable because of the unusually small boundaries at Eden Park, he did at least set New Zealand a challenge.
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