Gujarat Titans batsman created havoc, scored a record century and gave a great victory
Sherfane Rutherford
Sherfane Rutherford Century: A three-match ODI series is being played between West Indies and Bangladesh, in the first match of which West Indies defeated Bangladesh by 5 wickets. In this match, Sherfane Rutherford showed an example of strong batting for West Indies. He single-handedly led the team to victory by scoring a century and has proved to be the biggest hero. Bangladesh won the toss and decided to bat first. After this, a target of 295 runs was given, in response to which West Indies chased the target due to the strong innings of Sai Hope and Sherfane Rutherford.
Rutherford scored the first century of his career
West Indies had a very bad start. When openers Brendan King (9 runs) and Evin Lewis (16 runs) could not show anything special. Casey Carty could also score only 21 runs. After this, captain Sai Hope and Sherfane Rutherford took the responsibility of scoring runs. Rutherford scored 113 runs in just 80 balls, which included 7 fours and 8 sixes. He has scored the first century of his career. Whereas Captain Sai scored 86 runs in 88 balls. It was because of these players that the team won the match.
Fifth consecutive fifty plus score in ODI
Sherfane Rutherford made his debut for West Indies in the year 2023. At present he is in excellent form and his bat is scoring a lot of runs. He has scored five consecutive fifty plus scores in ODI cricket. With this he has equaled Chris Gayle, Sai Hope and Gordon Greenidge. These players have also scored fifty plus scores five consecutive times in ODIs. Rutherford has so far scored a total of 443 runs in 10 ODI matches, which includes one century and 5 half-centuries. He also has 428 runs in his name in T20 International cricket. He has not yet made his debut in Test cricket.
Highest consecutive fifty plus score for West Indies in ODI
- 6 – Gordon Greenidge (1979-1980)
- 5 – Chris Gayle (2018-2019)
- 5 – Shai Hope (2020-2021)
- 5 – Sherfane Rutherford (2024)
- 4 – Vivian Richards (1979-1980)
Gujarat team bought in mega auction
Sherfane Rutherford has played cricket for Delhi Capitals and RCB in IPL, in which he has scored a total of 106 runs in 10 matches. This time he has been bought by Gujarat Titans team in IPL Mega Auction 2025. For this the Gujarat team has paid Rs 2 crore 60 lakh.
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