Cricket: It is always said in cricket that if a player wants to last long then his fitness should be very good. If a player is not fit then he will not be able to play long innings but there have been some players who have earned a good name in cricket despite not having very good fitness.
One of these players is Rakheem Cornwall of West Indies, who weighs the heaviest among cricket players, yet he played a tremendous innings in T20 which has surprised everyone.
Rakhim made a special record in America
Actually this match was played in America’s Minor League Cricket. Where he has accomplished this feat. Rakhim scored a double century in T20 cricket while playing for Atlanta Fire. Atlanta batted first with Steven Taylor coming in to bat. Rakhim along with Steven gave a flying start for the first wicket.
Rakhim Cornwall scored a double century in T20 cricket.
While Taylor scored a fifty in this match, Cornwall did not stop even after scoring a century and he along with Sami Aslam did not let the pace of runs slow down. Rakhim then changed his batting gears and hit a series of fours and sixes. Rakhim scored unbeaten 205 runs in 77 balls in this match. He hit 17 fours and 22 sixes in his explosive innings. During this period his strike rate was 266.
However, this memorable innings of Cornwall will not be recorded in the pages of history, because this match was not counted as an official match. Because of which this inning of his will not be counted as the biggest innings in T20 cricket, whereas the record of making the biggest score in an innings in T20 cricket is still in the name of Chris Gayle who scored an unbeaten 175 against Pune Warriors India in an innings. Had scored runs.
Rakhim’s career has been like this
If we talk about Cornwall’s T20 career, he has played a total of 84 matches in T20 cricket so far, in which he has scored 1397 runs in 77 innings at an average of 19.67 and a strike rate of 147.67. During this period he has scored 1 century and 5 half-centuries. In which his highest score is 102.
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