Who is Curtis Campher? Why he is trending on social media?

Curtis Campher

Curtis Campher is the name being searched by a plethora of cricket fans. Campher stunned the entire cricket fraternity as he joined the elite league of bowlers including Rashid Khan and Lasith Malinga. The right-arm fast-medium bowler delivered a hair-raising performance in the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup match between Netherlands and Ireland by picking up four wickets off four consecutive deliveries.

Curtis Campher is a right-arm seamer who started his career as an Under-19 player for South Africa. However, a lack of opportunities in his home country prompted the pacer to shift to Ireland in early 2020. The decision by Campher proved to be a turning point in his cricket career as he quickly found a place in Ireland’s cricket team.

Making his debut in the three-match T20I series against England, Campher impressed the cricket fraternity with his conduct with the bat and the ball. The 22-year-old has so far featured in 10 One Day Internationals and 5 T20 Internationals picking eight and seven wickets respectively.

The Johannesburg-born also has 359 ODI and 40 T20I runs to his credit at a strike rate of 72.97 and 148.15 respectively. The flamboyant seam all-rounder now forms an integral part of Ireland’s cricket team and is a part of their squad for the T20 World Cup.

Why is Curtis Campher trending on Twitter?

Ireland’s first match of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup saw them locking horns with the Netherlands at the Sheikh Zayed Cricket Stadium in Abu Dhabi. During the game, Campher caused carnage on the field as he asked some really difficult questions from the opposition with the ball.

Bowling the 10th over, Curtis dismissed Colin Ackermann, Ryan ten Doeschate, Scott Edwards, and Roelof van der Merwe off four consecutive deliveries. Owing to his assault with the ball, the seamer equaled the record made by Lasith Malinga and Rashid Khan in the shortest format of the game.

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