This week’s roundup also features shrill commentary, Peter Wright highlights and a spectacular NBA comeback
1) Let’s start with a bang, as Leo Carter slams six sixes in an over for Canterbury Kings against Northern Knights in the T20 Super Smash, on his way to an unbeaten 70 from 29 balls. Carter is only the seventh cricketer, and the first Kiwi, to achieve the feat – others include Yuvraj Singh’s brutal dismantling of Stuart Broad at the 2007 T20 World Cup and Hazratullah Zazai picking off Abdullah Mazari in the 2018 Afghanistan Premier League.
2) The last great heist of the 2010s – Ugandan teenager Jacob Kiplimo is breezing to victory and a new course record at the 15km San Silvestre de Sao Paulo road race, but eases off as the line approaches. Enter Kenya’s Kibiwott Kandie … There’s plenty in the celebrating too early stakes, such as Ben Payne branding himself No 1 at the Atlanta Peachtree 10k in 2015 – just as Britain’s Scott Overall was relegating him to second place.
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