Glenn Phillips second century of T20WC 2022, 100 runs in 61 balls

Glenn Phillips hundred in T20 World Cup 2022 New Zealand's team had lost 3 wickets for 15 runs but Glenn Phillips played a century innings to handle the team and scored the second century of this World Cup.

Glenn Phillips second century of T20WC 2022, 100 runs in 61 balls
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T20 World Cup 2022, NZ vs SL:  Zealand team captain Kane Williamson won the toss and decided to bat against Sri Lanka, but his decision proved to be wrong. His team lost 3 wickets for just 15 runs in the beginning, but after that Glenn Phillips did the job of handling the team and played a century and took the team's score to a respectable position. On the strength of his innings. 

Glenn Phillips century in 61 balls

The first century of the T20 World Cup 2022 was scored by South African opener Rilee Rossouw against Bangladesh, but the second century of this tournament came against Sri Lanka with the bat of Kiwi batsman Glenn Phillips. Not only this, in this season he became the first batsman from New Zealand to score a century in this World Cup. Glenn Phillips completed his century in this match with the help of 4 sixes and 10 fours in 61 balls. Glenn scored 104 runs in this match at a strike rate of 162.50 off 64 balls and was caught by Lahiru Kumara. 

Phillips scored the first century of T20 World Cup

While this was Glenn Phillips' first century in the T20 World Cup, it proved to be the second century of his T20 International cricket career. If we talk about scoring a century in the T20 World Cup from New Zealand, then the first name comes from Brendon McCullum, who scored 123 runs against Bangladesh in the year 2012. Now after 10 years, a Kiwi batsman has done wonders for scoring a century in the T20 World Cup. Not only this, he also became the batsman to play the second highest innings in the T20 World Cup for New Zealand. Apart from this, he also scored his first century in T20I against Sri Lanka. 

Batsmen who scored a century in T20 World Cup -

 

117* - Chris Gayle vs South Africa in 2007

 

101* - Suresh Raina vs South Africa in 2010

 

100* - Mahela Jayawardene vs Zimbabwe in 2010

 

123* - Brendon McCullum vs Bangladesh in 2012

 

116* - Alex Hales vs Sri Lanka in 2014

 

111* - Ahmed Shehzad vs Bangladesh in 2014

 

103* - Tamim Iqbal v Oman in 2016

 

100* - Chris Gayle vs England in 2016

 

101* - Jos Buttler vs Sri Lanka in 2021

 

109* - Rilee Rossouw vs Bangladesh in 2022

 

104* - Glenn Phillips vs Sri Lanka in 2022

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