Incredible Amelia Kerr joins Rohit Sharma in elite club with 2nd T20I century

NZW vs SAW: Amelia Kerr continued her incredible run as captain after scoring a 52-ball century in the fifth and final T20I against South Africa at the Hagley Oval in Christchurch.

Amelia Kerr has joined Rohit Sharma, Babar Azam, and Meg Lanning on the elite list of cricketers with multiple T20I centuries as captain. The 25-year-old New Zealand all-rounder achieved the feat in the fifth and final T20I against South Africa on Wednesday, March 25, at Hagley Oval in Christchurch.

Rohit and Babar are the only men’s cricketers from full member nations to have scored multiple T20I hundreds as captain. In women’s cricket, Sri Lanka’s Chamari Athapaththu, Australia’s Meg Lanning, and West Indies’ Hayley Matthews are the other players to have achieved the feat.

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On Wednesday, Kerr also registered the fastest century by a New Zealand batter in Women’s T20Is as the White Ferns beat South Africa by 92 runs to seal the series 4-1. She surpassed Suzie Bates, who had scored a 55-ball hundred against the Proteas in Taunton in 2018.

Kerr recently became the only cricketer across men’s and women’s T20Is to register 11 consecutive scores of 30 or more.

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