Zim Afro T10: Harare Bolts’ George Munsey makes history, scores first hundred of event

Harare: Scotland’s George Munsey has been in fine form within the 2d season of the Zim Afro T10’s thus an excellent distance, and as the league stage heads toward the home stretch, the Scotsman hit top gear to attain the first century of the tournament.

Harare Bolts’ Munsey scored an unbeaten a hundred off 38 deliveries, hitting 10 maximums and six boundaries at a strike rate of 263.16 while batting against the Durban Wolves. Munsey scored the century on the sixth day of Season 2 of Zim Afro T10, which is being played on the picturesque Harare Sports Club. Munsey’s ton also helped the Harare Bolts rewrite the record books as the Harare Bolts put on a complete of 173/2 in 10 overs, which is the very best ever on the Zim Afro T10.

Previously within the tournament, the left-handed batter began his campaign with an unbeaten 33 from Thirteen balls, in a winning lead to against the Cape Town Samp Army within the first game.

Within the 2d game, also against the Durban Wolves, Munsey scored 37 from 18 deliveries, after which he got 10 from 5 against the Jo’Burg Bangla Tigers in his third game. After that, against Bulawayo Brave Jaguars, within the game where David Warner made his Zim Afro T10 debut, Munsey changed into brushed off for 1. Next, he faced the NYS Lagos, and Munsey got Thirteen off 7, ahead of facing the Durban Wolves in his sixth game of the tournament.

The 31-year-old top-order batter has been undoubtedly probably one of many most ideal batters on the Zim Afro T10 and is not any longer alien to the aggressive approach. In his T20 career also, Munsey has scored quite quite a lot of runs and has Four centuries to boast of in lower than 160 games.

Munsey’s brilliant century no longer simplest set the tone for Day 6 on the Zim Afro T10 but additionally helped his team register an important win. The Bolts defeated the Durban Wolves by fifty four runs.