‘Unbelievable game’ – Marnus Labuschagne recounts the drama of the epic County Championship game

They were all out for 593 by Gloucestershire and went into the final over of the match needing two to win after centuries from Labuschagne and Sam Northeast. Mason Crane played four tee balls before taking one to tie the score, leaving No. 11 Jamie McIlroy on the stroke. Ajeet Dale bowled hard, to James Bracey who took a stunning one-handed catch with his right glove off the batsmen who were trying to bid farewell.

“Anytime you’re chasing big points like that it’s always one step at a time,” Labuschagne said. SEN radio. “But the place where we played was the same [a] on a very fast pitch so you just feel like if you get on top of the opponents and score and score well, things can get out of hand very quickly.

“That’s always in the back of your mind but you just take it one step at a time. Then when it gets down to 100 you start investing more and you get desperate, then you get down to 50, then we lose a few more wickets and we’re like, we’re going to score a draw or go all in to win .

“So there was a lot of ups and downs even in the last over, we got a boundary on the last ball in the second over of the day, then we thought we were home. We needed two runs in the last over, we got them. Mason Crane on strike He ended up facing four dots then he got one, so it’s off to number 11 to get the job done.

“Awesome game…we got their points, we couldn’t get one more.”

The game marks Labuschagne’s final County Championship appearance on the special with Glamorgan leading a run of T20 Blast matches before returning to Australia. He will then be part of Queensland’s pre-season as its new captain before returning to England for the ODI series in mid-September.

“The ups and downs of the game are part of the challenge,” he said. “For me it was just a good opportunity to review before I came here how I was successful, what I did at different times when I was batting well… I did a few technical things and worked on a few things and it’s coming together very well, so prepare well for the one-day cricket and Test cricket coming up in this country type.

“I’m always looking at my game through a technical lens, finding ways to improve and improve, and especially with my strategy to make sure my alignment is good, I’m getting on the ball well, all those kinds of things. [are] It’s very important to me.”

Being part of the 592-run four-day haul was not the only memorable moment of Labuschagne Glamorgan’s season as he lit up social media with a stunning catch in the T20 Blast.

“Definitely the best trophy I’ve ever won that was caught on camera, that’s for sure,” he said. “I took up club cricket when I was 18 or 19, the guys I play with in Queensland always say it was another great thing, but unfortunately we don’t have that on camera, it’s a good thing it didn’t happen. .”

Labuschagne is likely to be available for at least the first month of Queensland’s Sheffield Shield season and more likely depending on how the multi-format players are handled in the white-ball series against Pakistan in November. The first Test against India starts in Perth on November 22.

“That’s in the back of my mind,” he said of the prospect of facing India, “but when you’re playing you’re always trying to focus on the here and now.”