Rahul Tiwari
khelja|12-11-2024
Miracles do happen. But do they happen again and again? This 34 year old player has explained this very well. We are talking about cricketer Logan Van Beek, who has played cricket for two countries following the footsteps of his grandfather Sammy Guillen. Logan has played cricket for Netherlands and New Zealand. But, for now we have discussed him because he has performed amazingly in New Zealand's domestic tournament Plunket Shield. In fact, he has repeated the same feat which he had done 9 years ago. The only difference was that this time the team for which he did this while playing was different.
Logan Bain is part of the Beek Wellington team in the Plunket Shield, which is competing with Auckland. In the match, Auckland batted first and scored only 184 runs in the first innings. Auckland team failed to cross the threshold of 200 runs in the first innings because Logan van Beek became a hindrance in its path. All-rounder Logan took 5 wickets in the first innings with his brilliant bowling. He took all five wickets while giving 53 runs in 15 overs.
Now it was the turn of Wellington's first innings. His first inning ended at 270 runs. Even in batting, Logan emerged as the strength of his team. Logan, who came to bat at number 7, faced 162 balls and scored a brilliant century, which included 12 fours and 3 sixes.
After taking 5 wickets with the ball in the first innings and then scoring a century with the bat, Logan Van Beek has not made history but repeated it. He has done this feat for the second time in the same match after the year 2015-16. Earlier he had performed like this for the Canterbury team. He is the second New Zealand player to take 5 wickets and score a century in a match.
This is the same Logan Van Beek who repeated history after 9 years, who gave away 37 runs in one over in a MAX60 League match in August this year. In this way he gave 60 runs in 2 overs. But, now he has been seen doing the magic of both 5 wickets and a century in one match.