Glenn Maxwell played an unbeaten innings of 106 runs in the match played on Wednesday in Major League Cricket. He hit 13 sixes and 2 fours in this explosive innings played on 49 balls.
With this, he equaled the legendary players including Rohit Sharma in terms of scoring the most centuries in T20. This is Glenn Maxwell's 8th T20 century. He equaled 5 legends including his compatriot Aaron Finch, David Warner. Maxwell played 15 balls to score the first 11 runs, but later made up for it.
Maxwell has become the sixth player to score 8 centuries in T20 cricket. Apart from him, Rohit Sharma, Aaron Finch, David Warner, Jos Buttler and Michael Klinger have scored 8 centuries each. The record for scoring the most centuries in T20 is held by Chris Gayle, who has scored 22 centuries in 463 matches. He has retired from every format of cricket. Babar Azam is at number two in this list, who has scored 11 centuries. Rilee Rossow and Virat Kohli are at number three and four with 9 centuries each.
This was the 8th match of Major League Cricket, in which Washington Freedom and Los Angeles Knight Riders were face to face. With the help of Glenn Maxwell's explosive century, his team Washington scored 208 runs. In response, the entire team of Knight Riders collapsed for 95 runs and Washington won this match by a huge margin of 113 runs.
Los Angeles Knight Riders' top 3 batsmen (Alex Hales, Sunil Narine and Unmukt Chand) could not even open their account. Jack Edwards and Mitchell Owen took 3-3 wickets. Saurabh Netravalkar took 2 wickets. This was Washington Freedom's second win out of 3. They are at the third position in the points table. This is the third consecutive loss for the Knight Riders, they are at the fifth position in the table.
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