Tuesday , December 24 2024

Gujarat Titans batsman registered a spectacular victory by scoring a record century.

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Sherfane Rutherford Century: A three-match ODI series is being played between West Indies and Bangladesh, in the first match of which West Indies defeated Bangladesh by 5 wickets. In this match, Sherfan Rutherford presented a model of strong batting for West Indies. He single-handedly led the team to victory by scoring a century and proved to be the biggest hero. Bangladesh won the toss and decided to bat first. After this, a target of 295 runs was given, in response to which West Indies achieved the target due to the strong innings of Sai Hope and Sherfan Rutherford.

Rutherford scored the first century of his career

West Indies had a very bad start. Whereas openers Brendan King (9 runs) and Evin Lewis (16 runs) could not do anything special. Casey Carty could also score only 21 runs. After this, captain Sai Hope and Sherfan Rutherford took the responsibility of scoring runs. Rutherford scored 113 runs in just 80 balls, which included 7 fours and 8 sixes. He has scored the first century of his career. Captain Sai scored 86 runs in 88 balls. It was because of these players that the team won the match.

Fifth consecutive fifty plus score in ODI

Sherfan Rutherford made his debut for West Indies in the year 2023. He is in great form at the moment and is scoring a lot of runs. He has scored fifty plus score five consecutive times in ODI cricket. With this he has equaled Chris Gayle, Cy Hope and Gordon Greenidge. These players have also scored fifty plus scores five consecutive times in ODIs. Rutherford has scored a total of 443 runs in 10 ODI matches so far, which includes one century and 5 half-centuries. He also has 428 runs in his name in T20 international cricket. He has not yet made his debut in Test cricket.

Highest consecutive fifty plus score in ODI for West Indies

6 – Gordon Greenidge (1979-1980)

5 – Chris Gayle (2018-2019)

5 – Shai Hope (2020-2021)

5 – Sherfan Rutherford (2024)

4 – Vivian Richards (1979-1980)

Gujarat team bought in mega auction

Sherfan Rutherford has played cricket for Delhi Capitals and RCB in IPL. In which he has scored a total of 106 runs in 10 matches. This time he has been bought by Gujarat Titans team in IPL Mega Auction 2025. For this the Gujarat team has paid Rs 2 crore 60 lakh.