Punjab opener Abhishek Sharma has scored a century in 28 balls. Playing against Meghalaya on Thursday in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy (SMAT), he scored 106 runs in 29 balls. This innings included 11 sixes and 8 fours. Based on Abhishek's innings, the Punjab team achieved the target of 142 runs against Meghalaya in just 9.3 overs.

In another match of SMAT, Baroda also scored the highest score of 349 runs in T20 history. The team broke the record of Zimbabwe, which had scored 344 runs in October this year. At the same time, in the third match, Bhuvneshwar Kumar of Uttar Pradesh took a hat-trick. He took 3 wickets for just 6 runs in 4 overs.

Meghalaya could only score 142 runs against Punjab
The match between Punjab and Meghalaya started at 9 am in Saurashtra Cricket Stadium, Rajkot. Meghalaya chose to bat, but the team could score only 142 runs after losing 7 wickets. Not a single batsman on the team could score a fifty. Ramandeep Singh and Abhishek Sharma from Punjab took 2-2 wickets.

Facing the target of 143 runs, Punjab started very fast, the team scored a fifty in the third over. Abhishek scored most of the runs, during this Harnoor Singh was out after scoring 6 and Salil Arora after scoring 1 run. Abhishek then added 62 runs with Saurabh Dhaliwal, Dhaliwal was out after scoring 22 runs.

Abhishek scored the fourth century of his SMAT career.
Punjab's Ramandeep Singh scored 8 runs off 4 balls, but in front of him, Abhishek scored 106 runs off 29 balls and gave the team victory. Abhishek scored runs at a strike rate of 365.52. The economy of all five Meghalaya bowlers was more than 12.50. Abhishek scored the fourth century of his SMAT career, he is the player who has scored the most centuries in tournament history.

Abhishek equaled Urvil

Abhishek equaled Urvil Patel in terms of scoring a T20 century in the least number of balls. The wicketkeeper-batsman of Punjab also scored a century in SMAT against Tripura in 28 balls. This was the century in the least number of balls by an Indian batsman in T20. Abhishek has now equaled this record.

The record for the fastest century in overall T20 is in the name of Sahil Chauhan of Estonia. He scored a century in 27 balls against Cyprus this year. Now the record for the fastest century in India also belongs to Urvil and Abhishek. Before both of them, in 2013, Chris Gayle scored a century in 30 balls for Royal Challengers Bangalore in the IPL.

Baroda made the biggest score.
On Thursday morning itself, Baroda made the biggest score in T-20 cricket. The team made 349 runs in 20 overs against Sikkim on Thursday. Bhanu Pania from Baroda played an unbeaten innings of 134 runs in 51 balls. He hit 4 fours and 15 sixes.

Baroda won the match played in Indore by a huge margin of 263 runs. The team hit 18 fours and 37 sixes in the innings. That is, a total of 294 runs were scored from boundaries, which is also the highest number of runs scored from fours and sixes in T-20 history. Read the full news...

UP won due to bhuvneshwar's hat-trick
In the other match of SMAT, Uttar Pradesh captain Bhuvneshwar Kumar took a hat-trick. He took 3 wickets for just 6 runs in 4 overs. Jharkhand chose to bowl at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. UP scored 160 runs for the loss of 8 wickets, and Rinku Singh played an innings of 45 runs. Bal Krishna took 3 and Vivekanand Tiwari took 2 wickets from Jharkhand.

Jharkhand had lost only 5 wickets till the score of 116 runs in 16 overs. Anukul Roy was set. Here in the 17th over, Bhuvi took a hat-trick and did not give any runs. Jharkhand's score became 116/8. Anukul still stood, he was out after scoring 91 runs in the 20th over. After his wicket, the team was bundled out for 150 runs and lost the close match by 10 runs.

Fourth hat-trick of SMAT 2024

Bhuvneshwar became the third bowler to take a hat-trick in the current season of SMAT. Before him, Uttarakhand captain Akash Madhwal and Karnataka leg-spinner Shreyas Gopal took hat-tricks in Indore. Madhwal took a hat-trick against Karnataka and Gopal against Baroda. After Bhuvi, Goa's Felix Alemao also took a hat-trick against Nagaland in Hyderabad. In this way, there have been 4 hat-tricks in the tournament this year.

Bhanu Pania started trending on Google.

Bhanu Pania started trending on Google after hitting 15 sixes in Syed Mushtaq Ali. On the basis of his century, the team made the highest T-20 score.

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