Ollie Davies became the first player in nine years to score a Sheffield Shield double ton for New South Wales<\/p>\n
It was a hard feeling for Ollie Davies to describe after having just hit 253 from 225 balls as opener in NSW’s Sheffield Shield clash with Tasmania on Friday.<\/p>\n
Davies smashed 38 fours and four sixes in a stunning showing that was the Blues’ first double-century for nine years, before he was caught out in the deep.<\/p>\n
“It’s pretty like surreal,” Davies said. “When I was batting with Jack Edwards at the end,\u00a0I was kind of just like\u00a0in this flow state where everything’s kind of working, and I wasn’t thinking too much. <\/p>\n
“I was just seeing the ball and hitting it, and just reacting as best I could.”<\/p>\n
Every boundary of dynamo Davies’ 253<\/p>\n
Davies had struggled in the previous Shield campaign and was dropped from the side in December, but a move from number five to opener at the behest of new coach Brad Haddin proved to be a master stoke.<\/p>\n
The move to opening the batting began with a chat in preseason and Davies took the chance with open arms. But if you asked him whether he could see himself as an opener even a few years ago, he would have dismissed it as “a load of crap”.<\/p>\n
In a special moment, the 25-year-old was able to give his father a nod as he watched on at Cricket Central.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Both him (dad) and (brother) Joel have faced 200 balls before, and I hadn’t before this fixture,” Davies said.<\/p>\n
“The aim was to get to 200. I gave him a little salute when I when I got there. I think it was an outside edge for four, like through third man.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ollie Davies became the first player in nine years to score a Sheffield Shield double ton for New…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":922525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85,83],"class_list":["post-922524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922524","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=922524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/922525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=922524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=922524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=922524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}