{"id":65415,"date":"2025-08-13T15:47:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T15:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/65415\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T15:47:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T15:47:07","slug":"liam-livingstone-baffled-by-england-teammates-fat-shaming-dig-at-the-hundred-makes-him-regret-with-death-over-carnage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/65415\/","title":{"rendered":"Liam Livingstone baffled by England teammate’s fat-shaming dig at The Hundred, makes him regret with death-over carnage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Liam Livingstone<\/a> produced a blistering match-winning display in the Hundred that came with an unexpected sledge from his friend, which followed a revenge in the end. The Birmingham Phoenix star hammered an unbeaten 69 off just 27 balls to lead his side to their first win of the season, toppling defending champions Oval Invincibles in dramatic fashion at Edgbaston on Saturday.<\/p>\n

\"Liam Liam Livingstone during The Hundred match against Oval Invincibles.(X) <\/p>\n

Livingstone revealed that his close friend and England teammate Tom Curran<\/a> didn’t spare him during the game, stating that the all-rounder fat-shamed him.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have no idea why Tom started to spray me,\u201d Livingstone told BBC Two.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe is one of my good friends and he called me a fat slob or something so I thought \u2018let\u2019s hope you don\u2019t go for a few if you come back at the death\u2019 and he did so I\u2019m kind of happy with that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Curran\u2019s words came back to haunt him in the penultimate set of five deliveries. With Phoenix needing 22 off the final 10 balls, he returned to bowl the 91-95 ball stretch and was dispatched for two sixes, a four, a two and a single; 19 runs in all, leaving just three needed from the last five deliveries. Despite a couple of late wickets, the target was comfortably chased down, sealing a four-wicket win.<\/p>\n

\u201cVery special, we needed it,\u201d Livingstone said at the post-match presentation. \u201cThey\u2019re a great team, won it two years in a row. Nice to get one over them and hopefully give us some momentum. [The approach was to] try and get used to the pitch and use the bounce, try and take down their spinners. I back myself if bowlers miss, I can hit, and thankfully it came off.\u201d<\/p>\n

Livingstone smashing Rashid Khan<\/p>\n

A defining moment of Livingstone’s knock came against one of the world\u2019s premier bowlers, Rashid Khan. The England batter smashed 26 runs in just five balls off the Afghan leg-spinner \u2013 three sixes and two fours \u2013 making him the first player in T20 history (the Hundred is classified under the format for statistical purposes) to score more than 200 career runs against Rashid.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve got a pretty good record just by stepping across and slogging him. It\u2019s worked in the past. I can\u2019t pick him so just try to do it that way,\u201d Livingstone admitted.<\/p>\n

The Phoenix, who had been languishing at the bottom of the table, now hope this performance can serve as a turning point in their campaign. Still, the all-rounder was quick to acknowledge that there is room for improvement. \u201cWe let ourselves down a bit in the field. Something we don\u2019t want to do. Great win, got ourselves back into the tournament,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liam Livingstone produced a blistering match-winning display in the Hundred that came with an unexpected sledge from his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,52089,52092,52091,85,33521,52090,52093],"class_list":["post-65415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-liam-livingstone","tag-liam-livingstone-news","tag-liam-livingstone-the-hundred","tag-sports","tag-the-hundred","tag-tom-curran","tag-tom-curran-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65415","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=65415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}