Former teen prodigy Jake Fraser McGurk set a new 50-over world record with a blistering century off a staggering 29 balls for South Australia, faster than any ever recorded in a professional cricket match.
The now 21-year-old, who moved from Victoria in the off-season, smashed an unbelievable 13 sixes and 10 fours in the record-breaking innings before being dismissed for 125 off only 38 balls.
McGurk hit 12 of his 13 sixes and seven of his 10 fours in reaching triple figures and setting a world record needing just 11 deliveries to go from 50 to 100. At one stage Fraser-McGurk smashed five consecutive sixes and reached triple-figures in the ninth over of the innings and the opener‘s 18-ball fifty was the quickest by an Australian in any 50-over cricket.He was dismissed going for another six, caught on the boundary to bring the record-setting innings to an end in the 16th over with his team on 172.
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