From ‘chubby’ die hard Hobart fan to Australian cricket’s newest cult hero, Mitch Owen has delivered the Hobart Hurricanes a maiden Big Bash League title.
And a KFC eating contest to settle things once and for all with Craig Simmons, the man who Owen, a previously unheralded tornado of Tasmanian power-hitting, matched while leading Hobart’s seven-wicket canter against Sydney Thunder to their first Big Bash title.39-ball hundred in Monday’s BBL final.
When Owen matched him, Simmons was quick to welcome him to the “sub 40-ball 100 club”, in the same way Jason Gillespie reminds far more accomplished batters of his famed 201*.“Maybe we can take that player of the match KFC voucher and settle it over an eat-off,” Simmons signed off on social media.
All too perfectly, his “chubby” teenaged self is immortalised on one of the walls of Ninja Stadium, celebrating as now-Australian selector George Bailey hit the winning runs of a game in 2015.“some of my fondest memories as a young cricketer – I remember getting a nice photo with Xavier Doherty after he took a hat-trick, and another game Ricky actually gave me his gloves.”Credit:Now, he stands at a strapping 195 centimetres and 100kg.
Owen’s game-turning, life-changing 108 underscored the most impressive of BBL campaigns, with the century making for a tournament-high 452 runs. Of the top 10 run-scorers, only Glenn Maxwell came close to Owen’s 203.
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