NAPIER: West Indies cricket captain Shai hope has made a new world record in international cricket.
On Wednesday, in the 2nd ODI against New Zealand in Napier, Wish changed into 109 runs not out. With this inning, he has become the first cricketer in the global to attain centuries in opposition to 13 one-of-a-kind international teams.
Desire has made centuries in opposition to all eleven check-gambling international locations plus Netherlands and Nepal. No one else has completed that. Now he has gone one step similar to Chris Gayle and Mahela Jayawardene who made centuries against 12 groups.
This nineteenth century of ODI hope additionally method that he has West Indies report of Brian Lara equalled, who also scored 19 ODI loads. Chris Gayle continues to be the West Indies’ No.1 with 25 ODI centuries.
West Indies got 247 for 9 after their first innings. However, New Zealand did the process effortlessly and won the match by 5 wickets, thereby taking a 2–0 lead in the series.
West Indies set unique world record in ODIs cricket
The two-time world champion, West Indies has set a unique record by using the spin bowlers only to finish their innings and thus becoming the first team to do so in One-Day International (ODI) cricket.
According to details, in the second ODI of the series with Bangladesh, held at Mirpur, the West Indies made use of five spinners, who combined, bowled the entire 50 overs.
This is a first in the 54 years of the existence of ODIs that a side had used only spin bowlers to bowl all its overs. The spinners who played for the West Indies were Hosein, Chase, Pierre, Motie, and Athanaze.
Sri Lanka’s 1996 record for using the most spin in an ODI inning (44 overs against West Indies) was thus broken literally by West Indies. Sri Lanka also bowled 44 spin overs against New Zealand in 1998 and against Australia in 2004.
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