Watch: Travis Head outrageously uppercuts Mohammed Shami over slips for six in spectacular WTC final counter-attack
Watch: Travis Head hit an outrageous uppercut for six off Mohammad Shami, on his way to his maiden Test century outside Australia in the World Test Championship final at The Kia Oval today (June 7).
Head was closing on his three figures at the time of the shot, having reached 85 in the evening session. After he took a single from the first ball of Shami’s 13th over, Head attacked towards its end, bringing out the ramp shot. On his first attempt, he managed to get the ball over the slips for it to run away for four.
On the second attempt the very next ball, he went bigger. In almost identical fashion, he ran the ball late off the face of his bat, flicking it over the fielders and high enough this time for it to disappear over the boundary rope fo