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Liam Livingstone has revealed that Tom Curran weight-shamed him during The Hundred.
Liam Livingstone put up a match-winning fifty in the Hundred (Picture Credit: Sportzpics)
Tom Curran called Liam Livingstone a ‘fat slob or something’ during Birmingham Phoenix’s four-wicket win over Oval Invincibles in the Hundred men’s competition on Saturday. Livingstone, who put up a Player of the Match performance with a blazing fifty, said he didn’t expect his ‘good friend’ to go that route.
Curran’s sledge backfired. He came to bowl the penultimate five deliveries of the innings (91-95) when Phoenix needed 22 off 10 runs and got smacked for two sixes, a four, a double and a single. It left them needing just three runs which, despite losing two more wickets, the Phoenix chased down.
“I have no idea why Tom started to spray me,” Livingstone told BBC Two. “He is one of my good friends and he called me a fat slob or something so I thought ‘let’s hope you don’t go for a few if you come back at the death’ and he did so I’m kind of happy with that,” he added.
Livingstone remained unbeaten for 69 off 27 to get them to their first win of the season and lift them up from last place in the points table.
“Very special, we needed it,” Livingstone said earlier in the post-match presentation. “They’re a great team, won it two years in a row. Nice to get one over them and hopefully give us some momentum. [The approach was to] try and get used to the pitch and use the bounce, try and take down their spinners. I back myself if bowlers miss, I can hit, and thankfully it came off.”
A major feature of Livingstone’s knock was his 26 runs off five balls against the world-class Rashid Khan, including three sixes and two fours. He became the first player ever in T20s (the Hundred is considered under T20s for statistical purposes) to hit more than 200 runs against the leggie.
“I’ve got a pretty good record just by stepping across and slogging him. It’s worked in the past. I can’t pick him so just try to do it that way. We let ourselves down a bit in the field. Something we don’t want to do. Great win, got ourselves back into the tournament,” Livingstone added.
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