David Warner
The three-match T20 series between Australia and the West Indies began today. The first match of the series between the two teams will be played at the Hobart Stadium with the Australian team batting first scoring 213 runs for a loss of 7 wickets. In this match, opening batsman David Warner, who recently retired from the Test and ODI formats, scored a half-century in just 22 balls. During his innings, Warner faced 36 balls and scored 70 runs, including 12 fours and 1 six. On the basis of this innings, Warner also set a record in his name that no batsman in the history of T20 cricket has been able to achieve.
Warner is the first player to score 100 half-centuries in T20 cricket.
While David Warner scored his 37th half-century in a T20 International match, this was his 100th half-century in T20 cricket. Warner is now the first player to achieve this in this format. The record for most innings of a half-century in the T20 format after Warner belongs to Virat Kohli, who achieved the feat 91 times. In third place is the name of Universe Boss Chris Gayle, who has scored the most runs in the format and managed to score 88 half-centuries in the T20 format. While for Australia, after Warner, the record for scoring the most half-centuries in this T20 cricket goes to the name of Aaron Finch, who achieved the feat 77 times.
Warner reached this milestone in his 100th game across all three formats.
This was the 100th international T20 match of his career as he took to the field to play the first T20 match of the series against West Indies. By playing half a century in the game, Warner set a record that will not be easy for any player to break. Warner is the first player to score more than 50 points in his 100th game in all three international formats. While Warner had scored 124 runs in the ODI match against India in 2017, he managed to score 200 runs in his 100th Test match against South Africa in 2023.
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