Tuesday , December 24 2024

South African batsman created history, became the third wicketkeeper in Asia to achieve this feat

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These days the South African cricket team is on Bangladesh tour, where a 2-Test series is being played. The first match of the series will be played from 21st October. On the second day of the match, Africa's wicketkeeper batsman Kyle Varney scored a brilliant century. After AB de Villiers and Quinton de Kock, he became a wicketkeeper batsman and achieved great success.

Kyle Varney sets a new record

On the second day of the first match against Bangladesh, Kyle Varney scored a strong century and became the third African wicketkeeper batsman to score a century in the Test format in Asia. Earlier, wicketkeeper-batsmen AB de Villiers and Quinton de Kock had scored centuries for Africa in Test matches on Asian soil. De Villiers had done this feat against Pakistan in the year 2013. Apart from this, De Kock had scored a century against India in the year 2019. Now, five years later, Kyle Varney scored a Test century against Bangladesh and became the third African wicket-keeper batsman to score a century in Asia.

Brilliant innings of 114 runs

In this match, Kyle Varney created a stir while batting at number 7 for South Africa. He played a brilliant inning of 114 runs in 144 balls. This deadly batsman hit 8 fours and 2 sixes during his innings. Kyle Varney scored his second Test century.

Debuted in the year 2021

Kyle Varney made his Test debut for Africa in the year 2021. He has scored 833 runs in 19 test matches so far. Apart from this, this player has so far scored 488 runs in 17 ODI matches at an average of 37.53.

This is the match status

In the first test match, Bangladesh batted first and scored 106/10 runs. No batsman could play a big innings for Bengal Tigers. Thanks to Kyle Wren's century, Africa made a huge score of 308 runs in its first innings. Till the time of writing the news, Bangladesh has scored 40 runs at the loss of 2 wickets.