Ashton Turner relives his sensational knock in the 4th ODI match against India

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Mohali: Ashton Turner of Australia plays a shot during the 4th ODI cricket match between India and Australia in Mohali on Sunday, March 10, 2019. (PTI Photo/Vijay Verma)(PTI3_10_2019_000194B)

The 4th ODI match against Australia was proved to be a nightmare for the Indians when a 26-year old Ashton Turner smashed 84 runs off just 43 deliveries.

In the process, he hit 5 sixes and 6 boundaries. Before the 4th ODI, he was relatively unknown to the Cricket fans in India. Australians were 229/4 when Turner came to bat and they still needed 138 runs to win in 78 deliveries with the required run rate going over 10 runs per over.

I haven’t got a lot of sleep, I feel like I still have some of the adrenaline and tingles running through my body. It is always great to get support when you are away from home. My phone’s been going non-stop, it’s been quite unusual for me,” said Turner. “It was an amazing night, I am still pinching myself really.”

Seems like a bit of a blur now. It was always going to be an exciting game of cricket from the start and we knew it was going to suit the batters,” he said.

Towards the end, especially me having not played a lot of cricket in India we weren’t really sure what the conditions would be like. We have seen in a few games that the ball has gotten really soft and scoring has been really tough in the backend.

I think for me, coming into the situation from ball one I knew it was going to get harder and harder to bat so I decided to get a few away early. As it turned out, the ball didn’t reverse swing like we thought it would because of the dew.”

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