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Baroda Scored The Highest T20 Score As Abhishek Scored Century In 28 Balls

  • By Thetripurapost Sports Desk, Rajkot
  • Dec 05, 2024
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Punjab opener Abhishek Sharma has scored a century in 28 balls. Playing against Meghalaya in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy (SMAT) on Thursday, he scored 106 runs in 29 balls. This innings included 11 sixes and 8 fours. On the basis of Abhishek's innings, the team achieved the target of 142 runs against Meghalaya in just 9.3 overs.

In another match of SMAT, Baroda also made the highest score of 349 runs in T20 history. The team broke the record of Zimbabwe, who had scored 344 runs in October this year. In the third match, Uttar Pradesh's Bhuvneshwar Kumar took a hat-trick. He took 3 wickets for just 6 runs in 4 overs.

The match between Punjab and Meghalaya started at 9 am in Saurashtra Cricket Stadium, Rajkot. Meghalaya chose to bat, but the team could only score 142 runs after losing 7 wickets. Not a single batsman from the team scored a fifty. Ramandeep Singh and Abhishek Sharma from Punjab took 2-2 wickets each.

Facing a target of 143 runs, Punjab started very fast, the team scored a fifty in the third over itself. Abhishek scored most of the runs, during which Harnoor Singh was dismissed after scoring 6 runs and Salil Arora was dismissed after scoring 1 run. Abhishek then added 62 runs with Saurabh Dhaliwal, Dhaliwal was dismissed after scoring 22 runs.

Punjab's Ramandeep Singh scored 8 runs off 4 balls, but in front of him Abhishek scored 106 runs off 29 balls to give the team victory. Abhishek scored runs at a strike rate of 365.52. The economy of all five Meghalaya bowlers was more than 12.50. Abhishek scored the fourth century of his SMAT career, he is the player with the most centuries in the tournament history.

Abhishek equaled Urvil Patel in terms of scoring a T20 century in the least number of balls. The wicketkeeper batsman from Punjab had also scored a century in 28 balls against Tripura in SMAT. This was the century in the least number of balls by an Indian batsman in T20. Abhishek has now equaled this record.
Overall, the record for the fastest century in T20 is in the name of Estonia's Sahil Chauhan. He scored a century in 27 balls against Cyprus this year. Now the record for the fastest century in India is also in the name of Urvil and Abhishek. Before both of them, in 2013, Chris Gayle scored a century in 30 balls for Royal Challengers Bangalore in IPL.

Baroda made the highest score in T20 cricket on Thursday morning. The team made 349 runs in 20 overs against Sikkim on Thursday. Bhanu Pania from Baroda played an unbeaten innings of 134 runs in 51 balls. He hit 4 fours and 15 sixes.

Baroda won the match played in Indore by a huge margin of 263 runs. The team hit 18 fours and 37 sixes in the innings. That means a total of 294 runs were scored from boundaries, which is also the highest number of runs scored from fours and sixes in T20 history.