On his day, he can simply rip into any bowling line up from around the world and irrespective of what ground or what conditions he plays in.
And if he has his way, he would generally only like to trade in boundaries. No huge cricket ground can contain his strokes and is generally never big enough for his attacking batting. While many of us would have actually thought that the above stands true for a certain Glenn Phillips, it also somewhere applies to Tim Seifert. Together, you may have noted that the trinity of Glenn Phillips, Tim Seifert and Finn Allen commands a force of its own and packs a strong punch.
And what happened just recently? Well, to put it simply, one of New Zealand cricket’s marvels in white ball cricket truly came into his own in the elite franchise based competition that’s become the heartline of English cricket: The Hundred.
So the big question is, what did Tim Seifert do with the bat that’s commanding headlines?
The aggressive and powerful right handed batter struck a whirlwind knock of 80 for his Manchester SuperGiants side in England. Scoring unbeaten runs is one thing but then to have done so in just only a few deliveries with a Sky rocketing strike rate does become something to talk about.
Coming good against a competitive unit
And hitting his half century knock in a commanding style that took just about 40 odd deliveries, the celebrated big hitting right hander from the Kiwi land struck as many as 7 sixes. And that wasn’t all; Tim Seifert’s brilliant knock also comprised 5 boundaries, the most hit by any batter in the game against Sunrisers Leeds, whose Mitch Marsh too, struck just as many fours.
The 31 year old New Zealander came off against a bowling line up that featured the likes of Brydon Carse, Nathan Ellis and Matthew Potts but held onto his own and helped secure a fine win that mattered because it came against a powerful looking Sunrisers side comprising names like Ryan Rickelton, Zak Crawley, Harry Brook among the other names.