{"id":9007,"date":"2025-08-10T15:47:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T10:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=626818"},"modified":"2025-08-10T15:48:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T10:18:21","slug":"australia-vs-south-africa-1st-t20i-tim-david-launches-109-metre-six-onto-the-roof-in-darwin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/australia-vs-south-africa-1st-t20i-tim-david-launches-109-metre-six-onto-the-roof-in-darwin\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia vs South Africa, 1st T20I: Tim David launches 109-metre six onto the roof in Darwin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"544\" data-end=\"752\">In a stunning display of power-hitting during the <strong data-start=\"594\" data-end=\"643\">Australia vs South Africa, 1st T20I at Darwin<\/strong>, Tim David smashed a monstrous <strong data-start=\"675\" data-end=\"692\">109-metre six<\/strong> that cleared the boundary and landed on the stadium roof.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"754\" data-end=\"1035\">South Africa captain <strong data-start=\"775\" data-end=\"792\">Aiden Markram<\/strong> won the toss and opted to bowl first, and the visitors made early inroads, reducing Australia to 75\/6 inside eight overs. <strong data-start=\"915\" data-end=\"928\">Tim David<\/strong>, however, counterattacked alongside <strong data-start=\"965\" data-end=\"982\">Ben Dwarshuis<\/strong>, bringing much-needed acceleration to the innings.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1037\" data-end=\"1386\">The highlight came in the 12th over bowled by <strong data-start=\"1083\" data-end=\"1104\">Senuran Muthusamy<\/strong>. Facing a fuller delivery outside off stump, David bent his right knee, reached out, and launched the ball over extra cover with a <strong data-start=\"1236\" data-end=\"1266\">launch speed of 140.3 km\/h<\/strong>. The ball travelled a massive <strong data-start=\"1297\" data-end=\"1311\">109 metres<\/strong>, drawing loud applause from the Darwin crowd as it sailed onto the roof.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1388\" data-end=\"1605\">At the time of the big hit, <strong data-start=\"1416\" data-end=\"1429\">Tim David<\/strong> was on 37 from 23 balls, with two fours and four sixes, keeping Australia\u2019s hopes alive despite the top-order collapse in this <strong data-start=\"1557\" data-end=\"1596\">Australia vs South Africa, 1st T20I<\/strong> clash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a stunning display of power-hitting during the Australia vs South Africa, 1st T20I at Darwin, Tim David smashed a\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":374,"featured_media":31782,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/374"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}