VIDEO | Moises Henriques comes up with outrageous scoop towards third-man to send SCG into a frenzy

The Big Bash League (BBL) has the knack of giving us weird and quirky moments. This season, less than 15 days after the commencement of the tournament, we'♒ve already seen a bizarre 'unintentional' stumping from Josh Philippe, a superhuman catch fr🐲om Chris 'Air' Jordan and Jhye Richardson bowling from square-leg to inflict an impossible run-out. Almost every game provided us with a 'play of the season' moment, and today, the Sydney Derby between the Sixers and the Thunder, was no different.

Thanks to Tom Curran's heroics - first with the ball and then with the bat - the Sixers, out of nowhere, managed to stretch the match to a super over from a literal no-way-out situation. But after Curran was dismissed on the very first ball of the one-over shootout, all the pressure was on the shoulders of sk🌌ipper Moises Henriques, who'd scored a well-compiled 30-ball 41 in the Six🅷ers' pursuit of 150 in the actual match. 

Henriques's outrageous scoop off a half-volley on the third ball of the super over, which subsequently went for a four over the head of the fine-leg fielder, was incredible and gutsy enough, but what he pulled off two bܫalls later left everyone in shock and in awe of the all-rounder. On the fourth ball of the super over, with the Sixers 8/1 in three balls, Chris Morris, in an attempt to castle Henriques, bowled a quick one targetting the stumps.

The South African, however, did not execute his delivery to perfection and ended up bowling a full-toss. By now though, Henriques had already made ♚up his mind to go for a scoop shot and was a good foot outside the off-stump in an attempt to execute the shot. And execute the shot he did, so much so that it went for a six, but that was not the beauty of it.

The Sydney Sixers skipper outrageously dispatchꦆed the ball over third-man, despite playing a conventional scoop. As he met the ball on the full, Henriques, instead of just guiding it over fine-leg, decided the close the bat face and flick his wrist towards the off-side, inte🌱nding to play it over third-man. And the connection was so good that the ball flew over the boundary-line to add six valuable runs to the scoreboard.

This stupendous hit from Henriques sent everyone at the SCG - including the commentators - into a frenzy and eventually turned out to be the decisive hit that won them the game. Innovation never dꦯies, they say; you can now understand why.