At the age of 15… What history did this player create by scoring a century in the T20I debut match?

Ravinda’s female player Fanny Utagushimaninde has created history. Fanny has become the first player in the world to score a century in her debut match in women’s T20 International cricket. The special thing is that he has achieved this feat at the age of just 15 and 223 days. She has also become the youngest player to score a century in Women’s T20 International.

Fanny has made these records in her name by playing an unbeaten inning of 111 runs in 65 balls against Ghana in the Nigeria Invitational Women’s T20 International Tournament. Earlier, the record for playing the biggest innings in a debut match in Women’s T20 International was in the name of Karen Rolton of Australia, who scored unbeaten 96 runs against England in 2005. This was only the second T20 International match in the history of women’s cricket.

Talking about being the youngest to score a century in Women’s T20I, this record was in the name of Proskovia Alako of Uganda. He played an innings of 116 runs against Mali in 2019 at the age of 16 years 233 days. This record remained in the name of Alaco for 7 years, which has now been taken over by Fanny.

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What is the record in men’s cricket?

In men’s T20 International cricket, so far 4 batsmen have scored centuries in their debut match. However, none of these full members are from the team. The youngest batsman to score a century in men’s T20I is France’s Gustave Macon, who scored a century at the age of 18 years and 280 days.

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Rwanda team won easily

With the help of Fanny’s record-breaking century, Rwanda scored 210 runs at the loss of 3 wickets. Apart from Fanny, Marvel Uwase contributed 32 runs in 19 balls for Rwanda. There were 28 extra runs, due to which the team reached a big total. In response, Ghana’s team could score only 88 runs after playing 20 overs, losing 8 wickets and lost the match by 122 runs.