Cooper Fawcett celebrates his knock of 195 not out which included 43 off one over.
Talented Cooma cricketer Cooper Fawcett played an innings to remember in the recent Goulburn Murray Cricket season.
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It wasn’t so much the unbeaten 195 runs Fawcett plundered from the Nondies Cohuna attack in the Bill Williams B-grade competition, but how he got them.
Like an amazing 36 of 43 runs scored off the last over he faced to close the Cooma innings.
Yes 36. He went from 152 to 188 in that final over.
There is a slight catch though to Fawcett’s freakish feat.
Anyone who knows the sport well and has some mathematical knowledge will tell you if a batter plunders six off every ball of a six-ball over the total is only 36.
So how did Fawcett rip 36 off one over?
The answer is simple — there were five no balls in the over and Fawcett faced 11 deliveries rather than the normal six.
In his innings he helped himself to 25 fours and two sixes.
In that now famous last over Fawcett made all 36 runs scored with wides and no-balls taking the over tally to 43 runs.
He hit nine fours, four of which were off no balls.
Cooper Fawcett defied logic with a whopping over to close out the match.
One of his two sixes went out of sight and went crashing onto the top of the Lackie Ranson pavilion.
Fawcett recalls making 108 runs off the final five overs, with Cooma posting a daunting first innings score of 5-295 off its 40 overs.
Cooma then bowled Cohuna Nondies out for 141 in 39 overs to land a stress free win.
Fawcett, 21, spent the last Australian winter playing County cricket in England where he gained a lot of experience and made two centuries.
He returned to play in Cooma’s B-grade side in the Goulburn Murray competition in the recent season and made the most runs for his club as well as being in a premiership side.
Fawcett will probably savour a lot more momentous moments in his cricket career, but at Cooma his freakish innings and last over heroics will be talked about for many years to come.
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