NEW DELHI: South Australia‘s Jake Fraser-McGurk has achieved a brand new milestone in Record A cricket by scoring the quickest century, reaching the hundred-run mark in simply 29 deliveries throughout a home one-day match in opposition to Tasmania on Sunday.
Fraser-McGurk achieved this unbelievable feat within the eighth over of South Australia’s run chase at Karen Rolton Oval, surpassing the earlier document of 31 deliveries held by South Africa’s AB de Villiers in opposition to the West Indies in 2015.
The 21-year-old opener began his onslaught by blasting a half-century off a mere 18 deliveries, setting an Australian one-day home document. He then accelerated additional, needing simply 11 extra balls to finish his century, together with an astonishing 32 runs scored in a single over.
Fraser-McGurk achieved this unbelievable feat within the eighth over of South Australia’s run chase at Karen Rolton Oval, surpassing the earlier document of 31 deliveries held by South Africa’s AB de Villiers in opposition to the West Indies in 2015.
The 21-year-old opener began his onslaught by blasting a half-century off a mere 18 deliveries, setting an Australian one-day home document. He then accelerated additional, needing simply 11 extra balls to finish his century, together with an astonishing 32 runs scored in a single over.
Fraser-McGurk’s unbelievable innings got here to an finish when he was ultimately dismissed for 125 off solely 38 balls, a blistering knock that included ten fours and a outstanding 13 sixes.
South Australia was in pursuit of Tasmania’s formidable whole of 435/9, which stands because the highest-ever whole in Australian home one-day historical past.
This extraordinary achievement by Jake Fraser-McGurk follows one other outstanding century scored on the earth of cricket, as South Africa’s Aiden Markram hit the quickest century in World Cup historical past, reaching the milestone in simply 49 balls, the day earlier than.
(With inputs from AP)
