Hyderabad, Sep 25 (IANS) He was advanced as an opener as a bet without even a trace of bigwigs David Waner and Mitch Bog yet Cameron Green made the spot his own during the 2022 T20I series in India, raising a ruckus around town quickest 50 years in the most brief organization of the game for Australia.
Green, who opened the innings with Aaron Finch for the third back to back match in the third T20I at the Rajiv Gandhi Worldwide Cricket Arena, Uppal, here on Sunday, dashed to fifty off 19 balls, hitting seven limits and three sixes.
This is the third quickest 50 years for Australia in T20Is behind David Warner and Glenn Maxwell, both of who accomplished it off 18 conveyances. As far as runs, this is the second quickest as Warner struck his fifty off 18 balls and Maxwell did that two times.
Warner scored his 50 years against the West Indies in Sydney in February 2010 while Maxwell did it first against Pakistan in Mirpur in 2014 and afterward rehashed it against Sri Lanka at R Premadasa Arena in Colombo in 2016.
India’s Yuvraj Singh holds the record for the quickest fifty in T20 Internationals. He blasted to 50 years against Britain off 12 balls at Durban in the T20 World Cup in 2007, a similar match in which he pounded Stuart Expansive for 6 sixes in an over.
On Sunday, Green was in the end out for 52 off 21 balls (4×7, 6×3), got by KL Rahul off Bhuvneshwar Kumar in the last bundle of the fifth over.