15 year old batsman created history, Fanny Utagushimaninde scored a century on T20I debut

Fanny Utagushimanindhe: Rwanda’s 15-year-old young batsman Fanny Utagushimaninde has created history as soon as she made her debut in T20 International. She has scored a brilliant century in her debut match against Ghana in the Nigeria Invitational Women’s T20 Tournament. Fans has become the first female player to score a century in T20 International debut.

15 year old Fanny Utagushimaninde scored a century on debut

In the match played against Ghana on Friday, Fanny played an explosive inning of 111 unbeaten runs in just 65 balls. His innings included 17 fours. Batting aggressively from the very beginning, she gave a tough class to the Ghanaian bowlers and kept scoring runs continuously. Thanks to his stormy innings, Rwanda scored 210 runs after losing 3 wickets in 20 overs.

Rwanda’s 15-year-old batter Fanny Utagushimana became the first woman to score a century on T20I debut. She smashed a hundred against Ghana in the Nigeria Invitational Women’s T20I Tournament. Fanny also became the youngest player ever to score a T20I century.… pic.twitter.com/Pm9991WP18

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Became the first female player to do so

With this century, Fan Utagushimaninde has become the first female player to score a century in the debut match of T20 International. Earlier, the biggest record of debut in Women’s T20 International was in the name of Australia’s Karen Rolton, who played an unbeaten inning of 96 runs against England in her debut match. At the same time, the record for scoring the youngest century in T20 International was in the name of Uganda’s Proskovia Aloka, who scored a century against Mali at the age of 16.

The condition of the match was like this

Thanks to Fan Utagushimaninde’s unbeaten inning of 111 runs, Rwanda scored 210 runs after losing 3 wickets in the stipulated 20 overs. In response, Ghana’s batsmen, while chasing the target, were seen succumbing to the Rwandan bowlers. The result was that the entire team could score only 88 runs at the loss of 8 wickets in the stipulated 20 overs and thus Rwanda won the match by 122 runs.