David Miller
David Miller Records: After Team India reached the ICC World Cup 2023 semi-finals, now everyone is waiting to know who India will face in the final. Today, there is a competition between Australia and South Africa for this. Australia, who came to bat first, started troubling the South African team from the very first over. Runs were not being scored and wickets were falling continuously. But then David Miller took charge of the situation. David Miller’s brilliant century not only saved South Africa’s innings but also presented a big challenge to Australia. Along with this, David Miller has also vandalized many records.
David Miller made many new records for his team
This is David Miller’s second century in the ODI World Cup. Now among the batsmen batting at number five or below, only Glenn Maxwell is ahead of him, Maxwell has three centuries to his name. But if we talk about overall ODI cricket, this is his sixth century while batting at this number. Now he has joined the list of AB de Villiers, Eoin Morgan, Andrew Symonds and Sikandar Raza, who have scored so many centuries in ODIs by coming to bat at number five or later. In this matter, Jos Buttler is at number one, who has scored eight centuries. Whereas India’s MS Dhoni and Yuvraj Singh have scored seven centuries each.
Became the first South African bowler to score a century in the World Cup knockout
This is David Miller’s third century in ODI between Australia vs South Africa. South Africa’s Faf du Plessis and David Warner have scored five centuries each in this match. Quinton de Kock, Herschelle Gibbs, David Miller have scored three centuries each in this big match. Not only this, if we talk about the batsmen who have hit the most sixes in ODIs for South Africa, then AB de Villiers is at number one, he has 200 sixes in his name. Now David Miller has reached second place. He has now hit 138 sixes. In this match, he left behind Jacques Kallis, who had 137 sixes in ODIs. Herschelle Gibbs has hit 128 sixes and Quinton De Kock has hit 118 sixes. The special thing about David Miller is that he has now become the first batsman to score a century for South Africa in the World Cup knockout. He played an excellent inning of 101 runs against Australia in today’s match. Earlier, Faf Du Plessis had scored 82 runs against New Zealand in the semi-finals of 2015 and in the same year, Quinton de Kock had scored unbeaten 78 runs against Sri Lanka in Sydney.
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