Lendl Simmons bats with one pad in CPL

The match between Guyana Amazon Warriors and St Kitts and Nevis Patriots in the Caribbean Premier League match saw something that has never been witnessed in cricket. Patriots opener Lendl Simmons is going about his business with only one pad on. He left one of his pads after the 12th over of the match and went on to bat the remaining 8 overs of the match without pads.

Why did Lendl Simmons play with just one pad in #CPL16 game? Any idea anyone?

— Chinmay Jawalekar? (@CricfreakTweets) July 10, 2016

https://twitter.com/holdingwilley/status/752004736904073216

Simmons was the top scorer of the match being scored 50 runs. He was run-out in the last over of the match. However, he completed his half-century in 60-balls, the slowest known T20 half-century ever witnessed.

Slowest fifty in T20s: (Where known)

60 – L Simmons v GAW
55 – S Myburgh v NEP, 2015
55 – H Masakadza v SA, 2010
55 – J Duminy v KXIP, 2009

— Sampath Bandarupalli (@SampathStats) July 9, 2016

Patriots managed to post a total of just 108 runs with just 3 batsmen getting into double figure scores. Adam Zampa was the pick of the bowlers as he claimed 3 wickets. Zampa had given away just 18 runs off his 4 overs. Sohail Tanvir, Steve Jacobs, Rayad Emrit and Veerasammy Permaul claimed one wicket each.

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The pitch was not that easy to bat as Guyana lost 6 wickets in the chase before they chase down the target in 16.2 overs. Chris Lynn scored 34 runs off 37 balls and Martin Guptill was the top scorer for the team with 43 runs against his name from just 22 balls. Samuel Badree, JJ Smuts, and Tabraiz Shamsi bagged two wickets each.

Fans reacted through Twitter about the freaky incident off batting with one pad. Here are some of the tweets about it:

Another first for @CPL #OnePad pic.twitter.com/lOlmoMPblU

— Carlos Brathwaite (@TridentSportsX) July 9, 2016

Lendl batting with one pad – taken one off, I presume to be more maneuverable pic.twitter.com/xSOICOZzt3

— Peter Miller (@TheCricketGeek) July 9, 2016

Lendl Simmons batting without one pad. That's a weird one. We did it as kids when we didn't have money to buy two pairs.#GAWvSTK #CPL16

— Suneer (@suneerchowdhary) July 9, 2016

Lendl Simmons with one pad. Never seen before! #CPL16 pic.twitter.com/F1emkfJGEM

— Arjun Ashok (@arj_90) July 9, 2016

Very very strange thing happening at the CPL, Lendl Simmons is batting with only his left pad on. Have you seen this before? @vbharadwajcri

— Sram (@sriram_abd) July 9, 2016