The International Cricket Council (ICC) on Monday took to Twitter to share attention-grabbing trivia with followers. Sharing an image of former New Zealand all-rounder Scott Styris, ICC pointed that Styris falls in an elite record of gamers who’ve scored a century on Take a look at debut, batting at No. eight. The ICC additional acknowledged that solely 9 gamers have been capable of obtain this feat to date, and out of these 4 are from New Zealand.Cricket’s world governing physique, in its submit, additionally requested followers to call different three New Zealand gamers who achieved the feat.
“Of the 9 lots of scored by gamers batting at No.eight on Take a look at debut, 4 have been scored for New Zealand. One was scored by Scott Styris #OnThisDay in 2002, however are you able to identify the opposite three Kiwis to have achieved the feat?” tweeted ICC, sharing an image of Scott Styris celebrating his maiden Take a look at century.
Dean Jones, a former Australian cricketer who is commonly seen sharing commentary field with Styris, used this chance to troll the previous New Zealand all-rounder.
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Together with his hilarious reply on ICC’s tweet, Jones tried to pull Styris’ legs as he wrote: “@scottbstyris had been they bowling seashore balls?”.
Styris made his Take a look at debut towards the West Indies at St George’s, Grenada on June 29, 2002. Styris remained unbeaten on 107, serving to New Zealand put up 373 runs of their first innings. He was the top-scorer for his aspect within the first innings.
Regardless of a terrific begin to his Take a look at profession, Styris may by no means settle himself into New Zealand’s longest format squad and had a short Take a look at profession of 29 matches by which he scored 1586 runs and took 20 wickets.
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