2024-02-11 20:12:31
Glenn Maxwell made a storm in the second T20 against the West Indies in Adelaide today (February 11). He scored an unbeaten 120 runs in just 55 balls with 12 fours and 8 sixes. Which is his fifth century in T20 Internationals. Through this he touched Rohit Sharma’s record of maximum five centuries. Maxwell’s record-breaking century saw Australia win the match by 34 runs. And with this victory, they are guaranteed to win the series with one match in hand.
On this day, Australia went to bat first and scored 241 runs by losing 4 wickets with Maxwell’s unbeaten 120, Tim David’s 31, Mitchell Marsh’s 29 and David Warner’s 22 runs. In reply, the visitors can go up to 207 runs after losing 9 wickets.
Despite losing wickets at regular intervals, the Windies’ run wheels were on. Most batsmen score more runs with fewer balls. Among them, captain Rovman Powell scored 63 runs off 36 balls with 5 fours and 4 sixes. Andre Russell played a stormy innings of 37 runs off 16 balls with 4 fours and 2 sixes. Jason Holder scored 28 runs in just 16 balls with 3 fours and 1 six. And Johnson Charles scored 24 runs off 11 balls with 1 four and 3 sixes. That took their team tally to 200 against a bowling lineup like Australia.
Australia’s Marcus Stoinis took 3 wickets with the ball. But he gave 36 runs in 4 overs. Besides, Josh Hazlewood took 2 wickets for 31 runs and Spencer Johnson took 2 wickets for 39 runs.
Maxwell became the man of the match by storming the bat and touching the record.
Earlier today, Australia lost the wicket of Josh English for 14 runs. He was dismissed by the holder after scoring only 4 runs. After 57 runs, Mitchell Marsh also returned to the dressing room. 29 runs with 3 fours and 2 sixes was dismissed by Alzari Joseph.
Opening batsman David Warner returned to go for 64 runs. Romario Shepherd brought back Warner who scored 22 runs with 3 fours and 1 six.
Maxwell entered the field from there. After that, Maxwell added 82 runs to the team collection of 42 balls for the fourth wicket with Marcus Stoinis. At this time, he scored fifty in 25 balls with 4 fours and 4 sixes. Stoinis returns with 16 runs in 2 fours after 146 runs. Holder also took his wicket.
Then Maxwell and Tim David stormed to finish the innings. These two batsmen added 95 runs in 39 balls unbroken. At this time, Maxwell completed the century with 9 fours and 7 sixes in 50 balls. He touched the record of maximum five centuries jointly with Rohit Sharma in international T20. In the end he remained unbeaten on 120 runs off 55 balls with 12 fours and 8 sixes. Which is the second highest innings of his career. Earlier he scored 145 not out against Sri Lanka in 2016. He also scored 113 and 104 runs against India and 103 runs against England.
He remained unbeaten on 31 runs with Maxwell in 14 balls with 2 fours and an equal number of sixes.