Cricket: Meg Lanning helped Delhi Capitals defeat Gujarat Giants by seven wickets to earn a berth in the WPL final.
Lanning's Capitals secure WPL final | 01:20The Delhi Capitals have signed Australian cricket prodigy Jake Fraser-McGurk as a replacement player ahead of the 2024 Indian Premier League.
The 21-year-old will join forces with coach Ricky Ponting and compatriots David Warner, Mitchell Marsh and Jhye Richardson at Delhi.Earlier this summer, Fraser-McGurk peeled off a maiden List A century in extraordinary circumstances, reaching triple figures in just 29 deliveries against Tasmania at Adelaide’s Karen Rolton Oval to break the record for fastest white-ball century in professional cricket.
Fraser-McGurk played two ODIs against the West Indies, clobbering 41 during an eight-wicket victory in Canberra, while he was the leading run-scorer for the Melbourne Renegades during this year’s Big Bash League campaign, smacking 257 runs at 32.12 with a strike rate of 158.64.
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