Phil Salt struck his third T20I hundred to drive England to triumph in the very first game of their five-match collection versus West Indies, a tally improved by simply 3 guys in cricket background. Here’s the full checklist of batters with one of the most T20I hundreds.
Salt played an uncharacteristic innings in the third ODI, fighting to a slow-moving half-century complying with a top-order collapse to prop up England’s overall. He was commended for presenting a brand-new, fully grown side to his game, yet revealed there’s still lots of pugnacity to be hired, blowing up away to a century to make a target of 183 appearance little.
Attacking the brand-new sphere, Salt competed to fifty inside the powerplay and hardly slow down afterwards. His ton turned up off 53 rounds and was tied with 9 fours and 6 6s, and England took place to secure triumph with 19 rounds to save. Salt currently standards virtually 40 and strikes at virtually 170 throughout his T20I occupation, and has actually ensured his area in Brendon McCullum’s strategies when England’s Test instructor tackles the duty in all layouts.
The century was Salt’s third in T20Is after he got to 3 numbers in successive innings in December in 2014. In that time, he has actually developed himself as one of the globe’s premier short-form batters, a credibility mirrored in the soaring firm his century tally places him in. Only Australia’s Glenn Maxwell and India’s Rohit Sharma and Suryakumar Yadav have actually made a lot more centuries in the layout, while, amongst Full Member countries, just Pakistan’s Babar Azam and New Zealand’s Colin Munro are his amounts to.
Most guys’s T20I centuries, full checklist
| Player | Team | Hundreds |
| Glenn Maxwell | Australia | 5 |
| Rohit Sharma | India | 5 |
| Suryakumar Yadav | India | 4 |
| Babar Azam | Pakistan | 3 |
| Phil Salt | England | 3 |
| Colin Munro | New Zealand | 3 |
| Muhammad Waseem | UAE | 3 |
| Sabawoon Davizi | Czechia | 3 |
