Vine: Cricket bat splits in two after bowler’s powerful delivery

We thought cricket bats were designed for this sort of thing

We've seen cricketers have to replace their bats plenty of times before, usually due to a chip or a crack in the bottom, but we haven't seen a bat change quite this urgent before. Sri Lanka star Mahela Jayawadene was facing Afghanistan pace bowler Shappoor Zadran in their World Cup Pool A match today and played a standard defensive stroke, only to see his bat disappear down the wicket. Jayawardene went on to score a vital century as Sri Lanka went on to survive a real scare at the hands of the associate nation, securing a four-wicket win with just ten balls to spare.