Australia’s middle-order batsman Josh Inglis took the Scotland bowlers to task and scored a century in just 43 balls in the second match of the three-match series on Friday. During this, he scored the fastest century in T-20 format for Australia.
In the second match of the three-match series on Friday, middle order batsman Josh Inglis from Australia took Scotland’s bowlers to task and scored a century in just 43 balls. During this time, he scored Australia’s fastest century in the T-20 format. He broke Glenn Maxwell and Aaron Finch’s record of scoring centuries in 47 balls during this time. When opener Travis Head left the pavilion without playing, Inglis got a chance to play early in this match. After that, he managed the innings for his team and pitched a wild inning with 103 runs in 49 balls.
Inglis hit 20 balls to score fifty.
Inglis scored his half-century in just 20 balls against Scotland. Inglis got great help from Cameron Green in this match, with whom he shared an organization of 92 runs in 52 balls for the third wicket. Inglis received Marcus Stoinis’ support after Green was fired. Together, the two batsmen scored 64 runs in 43 balls for the fourth wicket, putting the team’s total above 150. The specialty of Inglis’ innings was that he finished his 100 years by hitting two sequential sixes. Australia set Scotland a target of 197 runs to win based on his innings.
Maxwell-Finch was left behind.
Australia’s fastest century in a T20 format came from Josh Inglis against Scotland. Glenn Maxwell scored a century in 47 balls last year, and Aaron Finch scored a century in 2013. The 19th over brought an end to Inglis’ innings. He also became the wicketkeeper batsman to score the fastest century in a T20 international during this innings. His second T20 century comes in this one. In November 2023, he scored his first century of his career, scoring 110 runs against India in Visakhapatnam.