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<\/p>\nDan Christian might just be Australia's most under-rated cricketer.<\/p>\n
The 37-year-old is hardly a household name yet he is keeping trophy engravers in work all around the globe.<\/p>\n
Christian has an incredible eight T20 titles to his name: three in Australia and England and one apiece in South Africa and the West Indies.<\/p>\n
And the street-smart Sydney Sixers all-rounder was at it again on Sunday, smoking the second fastest 50 in BBL history then shutting down the Adelaide Strikers run chase with his canny bowling.<\/p>\n
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Christian came to the crease at Blundstone Arena with the Sixers' innings going nowhere.<\/p>\n
At 3-58 in the 12th over, Christian tapped coach Greg Shipperd on the shoulder and promised to have a right old slog.<\/p>\n
Fifteen balls later he was raising his bat that ranked below only Chris Gayle's ridiculous 12 ball assault in the biggest bashing stakes.<\/p>\n
https:\/\/twitter.com\/wwos\/status\/1340593298256375808?s=20<\/a><\/p>\n No shame in being second to the 'Universe Boss,' and Christian ranked the knock highly among his many career achievements after the defending champion Sixers cruised to a 38 run win in Hobart.<\/a><\/p>\n "Right up there, particularly given the situation of the game," Christian told Fox Sports.<\/p>\n "They got off to an absolute flyer, Dan Worrall was fantastic with the new ball and it was a pretty ordinary wicket.<\/p>\n "I didn't have much choice but to go out and play a few shots and luckily I got away with a few."<\/p>\n Modest to say the least, particularly given the world's best T20 bowler, Rashid Khan, was one of the Strikers he took down with two of his five sixes.<\/p>\n https:\/\/twitter.com\/wwos\/status\/1340594594703151106?s=20<\/a><\/p>\n Christian revealed he changed tack against the Afghanistan spin bowling superstar.<\/p>\n "I haven't really swept him in the past, I've tended to play him down the ground and basically not to get out to him.<\/p>\n "But today I had to play a few shots and I felt like the sweep was going to be the best option.<\/p>\n "The boundaries aren't enormous here so luckily I got away with a few."<\/p>\n Suitably warmed up, Christian then tapped his skipper on the shoulder, got his mitts on the Kookaburra and immediately removed Adelaide dangerman Phil Salt for 28.<\/p>\n He then returned in the later stages and bowled pin-point yorkers from wide around the wicket to finish with 1-25 from four overs.<\/p>\n https:\/\/twitter.com\/freak4cric\/status\/1340616206688997377?s=20<\/a><\/p>\n "That's the beauty of being an all-rounder – when you feel you're having a good night, everything clicks into place," Christian said.<\/p>\n "I did say to Dan Hughes at the start to get me on early because I feel like I'm having a good night.<\/p>\n "Luckily I got that wicket in the first over and justified it."<\/p>\n Christian did represent Australia 35 times (19 ODIs, 16 T20s) and went close to the Test team.<\/p>\n But you wonder what Christian might have achieved in the international arena if he was born in a different country.<\/p>\n Andrew Symonds was Fox Cricket's analyst on the night and a good man to talk about him.<\/p>\n https:\/\/twitter.com\/wwos\/status\/1340582328649789440?s=20<\/a><\/p>\n As with Christian, many focused on Symonds' sheer power and overlooked his fine cricket brain.<\/p>\n "He's not slogging, he's just ball striking," Symonds noted.<\/p>\n "His balance, his back foot is on the ground when he's hitting the ball so he's giving himself a good chance of hitting it to the boundary.<\/p>\n "He's got a method to his cricket.<\/p>\n "The way he bowled tonight as well, got a wicket to break that early partnership and then later in the night to choke the flow of runs was very clever as well."<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dan Christian might just be Australia's most under-rated cricketer. The 37-year-old is hardly a household name yet he is keeping trophy engravers in work all […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11762"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11762"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11764,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11762\/revisions\/11764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}