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Thursday 18 April 2019

Bancroft Smashes Match-winning Ton on Durham ODI Debut


Cameron Bancroft scored his unbeaten 151 in the one-day match for Durham, and the batsman of Australia started paying the English county's confidence on them.

He said, "Hopefully (I'm conquering the crowd). I'm just going out to enjoy my cricket and enjoy playing in Durham, hopefully, I'm making some runs and if he They are going to win, so fantastic. "

Bancroft was banned for nine months after being stuck in the Australia Ball Tamparking Prison last year during the tour of South Africa.

Due to the incident of 'Sandpaper-Gate' during the Newlands Test against South Africa, Bancroft's Australian teammate Steve Smith and David Warner got a year-long suspense.

After returning to Australia's Big Bash League in December, and playing a role at the back of the current Sheffield Shield campaign of Western Australia, Bancroft joined Durham with the intention of making Australia's Ashes team.

Under Durham, now a new Australian director of cricket in Marcus North, he attracted criticism in few quarters when he recruited Bancroft.

But the 26-year-old was controversially appointed Durham captain and, in the presence of his first limited overs from the North-East, Bancroft crushed Northamptonshire at home for a one-day match at Chester with a 72-run victory. Le-Street on Wednesday.

"Winning is always a good feeling," Bancroft told Northern Echo.

"People are working hard so this tournament is really good to start well and it was good to have some runs personally."

Bancroft, playing in the 2017-18 Ashes, played five sixes and eight fours in 188 minutes.

Together with Michael Richardson, he added 208 runs in the fourth over.

Durham scored 342 runs for five wickets in his 50 overs.

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