2024-02-29 02:53:15
New Delhi: It is said that world cricket is full of heroes and records are there to be broken as soon as they are made. Yes, the record of fastest century in T-20 international cricket has been shattered. Namibia’s John Nicol Lofty-Eaton has broken the record of the fastest century in T20 International cricket. He achieved this feat during the opening match of the triangular series in Nepal.
Nepal’s Kushal Malla’s record shattered
He completed his century in 33 balls against Nepal. In this way, the record of Nepal’s Kushal Malla was shattered with one ball. Lofty-Eaton scored 101 runs in 36 balls in his innings, which included 11 fours and eight sixes. In this innings he scored 92 runs only from boundaries. This is the highest number of runs scored from boundaries by a batsman in T20 International.
Kushal had broken Rohit-Miller’s record
Malla had achieved this feat against Mongolia while playing for Nepal in the Hangzhou Asian Games-2023. In that match, Nepal had scored 314 runs for 3 wickets. This was the same match in which Deependra Singh Airi scored the fastest T20 International half-century in 9 balls. Let us tell you that Indian captain Rohit Sharma, David Miller, Sudesh Wickramasekera had recorded the record of scoring centuries in 35 balls each, which was broken by Kushal.
John completed his half-century in 18 balls
Talking about John’s match, the score of Namibia, who came to bat first, was 62 runs for 3 wickets in the 11th over. At that time, Lofty-Eaton came to bat and faced the first six balls, hitting two sixes and a four and completed his half-century in 18 balls. With Malan Kruger, he added 135 runs in 52 balls for the fourth wicket, taking Namibia to 4. Reached 206 runs on the wicket.
Opener Kruger remained unbeaten on 59 runs in 48 balls, while John, who scored a century in 33 balls, was dismissed by Bohra. On the other hand, Laffie-Eaton also did wonders in bowling and took 2 wickets for 29 runs in three overs. Nepal was out for 186 runs in the 19th over. In this way Namibia won the match by 20 runs.