Kamendu Mendis became the fastest player to score thousand runs in Test cricket in the last 75 years.
The second match of the 2-match Test series being played between Sri Lanka and New Zealand is being played on the ground of Galle, at the end of the second day’s play, the host Sri Lankan team had strengthened its hold considerably. At the same time, an excellent unbeaten century inning of 182 runs was seen from the bat of 25 year old player of Sri Lankan team, Kamendu Mendis. Kamendu Mendis has also become the fastest player in the history of Test cricket to complete 1000 Test runs in the last 75 years. Kamendu has equaled Don Bradman’s record in this matter.
Kamendu completed one thousand runs in just 13 innings
Kamendu Mendis faced 250 balls during his unbeaten innings of 182 runs in which he also hit 16 fours and 4 sixes. Whereas Kamendu completed one thousand runs in only the 13th innings of his Test career, after which he has become the third player along with Don Bradman, who has touched the figure of one thousand Test runs in such a short number of innings. Jointly on the first place in this list are 2 players Herbert Sutcliffe and Everton Weeks who achieved this figure in 12-12 innings. Before this series, Kamendu was playing at number 7 position in the Sri Lankan batting, but in this test series against New Zealand, he got a chance to play at number 5 position.
Players who scored 1000 runs in the fewest innings in Test cricket
- Bert Sutcliffe (New Zealand) – 12 innings
- Everton Weekes (West Indies) – 12 innings
- Kamendu Mendis (Sri Lanka) – 13 innings
- Don Bradman (Australia) – 13 innings
- Vinod Kambli (India) – 14 innings
- Robert Harvey (South Africa) – 14 innings
Sri Lanka strengthened its hold
At the end of the second day’s play of the second Test match of this series being played in Galle, while the Sri Lankan team had declared its first innings with a score of 602 runs, at the end of the day’s play they had declared their first innings with a score of 602 runs. Both the opening batsmen were also sent to the pavilion. At the end of the day’s play, the Kiwi team had lost 2 wickets at the score of 22 runs in its first innings.
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