Today the first century has been scored in the ICC T20 World Cup 2022. This century has been hit by South African batsman Rilee Rossouw. He completed his century while playing a stormy innings against Bangladesh and after that he looked emotional while celebrating on his knees. A video of it is becoming quite viral on social media.
South Africa played their second match against Bangladesh in the World Cup today. Their first match against Zimbabwe was inconclusive due to rain. After this, in this second match today, the team performed amazingly and won. The hero of this victory was Rilee Rossouw who scored 109 runs in just 56 balls. This was his second century in T20 cricket.
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Rossouw displayed aggressive batting in this match and hit 8 sixes and 7 fours in his innings. During this his strike rate was 194.64. Thanks to his innings, South Africa scored 205 runs in 20 overs.
He was seen celebrating after the century and after that he was also seen sitting on his knee and raising his hand. His fellow players were also seen praising him on this achievement.
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In this match, South Africa won the toss and elected to bat first. Team captain and opener Temba Bavuma was dismissed after scoring 2 runs. Rossouw then came to bat. He had a good partnership with de Kock and thanks to this partnership, the team scored 205 runs for the loss of 5 wickets.
Chasing the target, the Bangladesh team’s innings seemed to falter from the beginning. Both the openers got out early. Litton Das scored 34 but he too got out. After this, no batsman of the team could last long and the entire team was all out for 101 runs. In this way South Africa won the match by 104 runs.