{"id":341445,"date":"2025-12-11T10:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T10:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/341445\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T10:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T10:09:09","slug":"nicholas-pooran-refuses-to-stump-max-holden-in-bizarre-ilt20-scenes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/341445\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicholas Pooran refuses to stump Max Holden in bizarre ILT20 scenes"},"content":{"rendered":"

The evolution of T20 cricket has reached a point where refusing to take a wicket might just be the best strategy, as Nicholas Pooran showed in the ILT20 competition.<\/p>\n

Playing for MI Emirates, Pooran had one of the easiest stumping opportunities you’ll ever see as Desert Vipers batter Max Holden charged down the pitch to bowler Rashid Khan.<\/p>\n

However, Pooran simply stood there and allowed Holden to dart back into his crease. <\/p>\n

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“Oh! He did not stump him. Did not stump him,” the commentator says on the broadcast.<\/p>\n

“Wide is called. Could have stumped him by some distance.”<\/p>\n

\"Nicholas<\/p>\n

Nicholas Pooran refuses to stump Marcus Holden.\u00a0Twitter<\/p>\n

Pooran’s decision seemingly came due to the fact Holden was struggling to score runs, having hit just three boundaries for his 42 runs off 36 deliveries.<\/p>\n

With only four overs remaining in the match, they were happy for him to stay put with the Vipers having explosive hitter Shimron Hetmyer in next to bat.<\/p>\n

However, the English batter clearly knew it wasn’t his night and after another big swing and miss the following delivery, he retired and walked off the field.<\/p>\n

It’s not often a keeper refuses a stumping one ball and a batter walks off under their own power after the next one.<\/p>\n

Hetmyer came out and hit 15 off nine balls before Dan Lawrence scored 15 off eight.<\/p>\n

The Vipers would ultimately set 159 and won by one run after MI Emirates managed 158 in the second innings.<\/p>\n

Holden’s call to walk off in the end might have been the difference. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The evolution of T20 cricket has reached a point where refusing to take a wicket might just be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-341445","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cricket","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}