Sydney: Glenn Phillips created panic in the Sydney ground in the SRL vs NZL match on Saturday, 29 October in the ICC T20 World Cup, 2022. He hit a century in just 61 balls in this match and made a new record in the history of the T20 Cricket World Cup.
The history of the T20 World Cup shows that Glenn Phillips has become the second New Zealand batsman to score a century in the World Cup. And, is also the 10th batsman in the whole world. It is worth noting that this is Glenn Phillips’s second century in T20 Internationals. Glenn was lucky in this match against Sri Lanka. Because, during the match, two catches of Phillips were missed by the Sri Lankan players and Glenn created history.
Remind you that before Glenn Phillips in the T20 World Cup, McCullum scored a century for New Zealand in the ICC T20 World Cup, 2012. Today, in the match played on Saturday, 29 October, the first catch of Glenn Phillips was missed by Pathum Nisanka when Glenn was playing on 12 runs. And, for the second time, a catch for 45 runs was missed by Sri Lanka. What happened after that became golden history for New Zealand and Glenn Phillips.
Remind you one more thing Glenn Phillips is the second batsman to score a century in this latest T20 World Cup, 2022. Before him, Riley Rossouw of South Africa scored a century. It is worth noting that in today’s match, Glenn Phillips scored a century in 61 balls with 10 fours and 4 sixes and was dismissed for 104 runs in 64 balls.
New Zealand scored 167 runs for 7 wickets, thanks to a tremendous century from Glenn Phillips, and set Sri Lanka a target of 168 runs to win. But, the entire team of Sri Lanka, who came to the field to chase the target, was bundled out for 102 runs in front of the dangerous fast bowling of Trent Boult and Tim Southee.
