If anything good comes from a scar, then a scar is good!
With this attitude, one of the tournament's sponsors places a car next to the field in every IPL match. 'Let the car's glass break when hit by a ball that flies as a six' - this was their heartfelt wish, and that wish has been fulfilled. Yesterday, the car's glass broke with a six. In that 'accident' in Ekana, Lucknow, it has been confirmed that 5 lakh rupees are going out of the sponsor's bank account. The company will provide cricket equipment worth 5 lakh rupees to a backward village in India.
Sunrisers Hyderabad opener Abhishek Sharma hit a six worth Rs 5 lakh at the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Stadium the day before yesterday. The incident took place in the second over of Hyderabad's innings. The Indian opener pulled a short length ball from Royal Challengers Bangalore pacer Bhuvneshwar Kumar and sent it over deep midwicket for a boundary. The ball hit the windshield of a car parked on a stage right next to the gallery, shattering it instantly.
Incidents of breaking car windows are not new in Indian cricket. Last year, Royal Challengers Bangalore's Australian star Ellyse Perry broke the window of a sponsor's car during a match against UP Warriors at the Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru in the Women's Premier League.
Perry and Abhishek did not pay the fine for hitting sixes and breaking the car window. However, Asif Ali and Kevin O'Brien had to pay a fine for hitting sixes and breaking the window. In domestic cricket in England and Ireland, Asif and O'Brien hit sixes and broke the window of their own car parked next to the field!