Sachin Tendulkar and Gurbaz
A three-match ODI series was played between Afghanistan and Bangladesh. Afghanistan team won this series 2-1. Afghanistan performed brilliantly in the third ODI and defeated Bangladesh by 8 wickets. In this match, Afghanistan’s wicketkeeper batsman Rahmanullah Gurbaz scored a brilliant century. It was only because of his century that his team could win this match. This was his third international century this year. This was also the 8th ODI century of his career. With this century, Gurbaz left Team India’s legendary batsman Virat Kohli behind in a special record. At the same time, he has also equaled Sachin Tendulkar.
Gurbaz overtakes Virat
Gurbaz’s eighth ODI century helped him overtake Kohli, but he could not overtake the great Sachin Tendulkar. Gurbaz took only 46 innings to score his eighth ODI century. Apart from this, he has scored 8 ODI centuries at the age of 22. Only Sachin Tendulkar and South Africa’s Quinton de Kock had scored 8 centuries at such a young age. At this age, Virat Kohli had 7 ODI centuries to his name. In such a situation, he has now gone ahead of Virat Kohli in this list. Apart from this, Gurbaz has come third in the list of batsmen who have scored 8 ODI centuries in the least number of ODI innings.
Most ODI centuries at the age of 22
- 8 – Rahmanullah Gurbaz
- 8 – Sachin Tendulkar
- 8 – Quinton de Kock
- 7 – Virat Kohli
- 6 – Babar Azam
- 6 – Upul Tharanga
8 Fewest innings to reach ODI century:
- Hashim Amla: 43 innings
- Babar Azam: 44 innings
- Rahmanullah Gurbaz: 46 innings
- Imam ul Haq: 47 innings
- Quinton de Kock: 52 innings
- Callum McLeod: 56 innings
- Shikhar Dhawan: 57 innings
How was the match?
In the 3rd ODI of Afghanistan vs Bangladesh, Bangla Tigers won the toss and elected to bat first. They scored 244 runs in 50 overs thanks to Mahmudullah’s 98 and Mehdi Hasan Miraz’s 66 runs. Afghanistan was given a target of 245 runs to win this match. They scored 246 runs losing only 5 wickets in 48.2 overs and won the match by 5 wickets.
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