Eoin Morgan completed his maiden World Cup 2019 hundred with his 11th six of an astonishing innings and went on to hit 🅠17 maximu🧸ms in a sensational 148.
Morgan came to the crease with 20 overs of the innings remaining, England having reached 164-💯2 from 2🍸9.5 overs.
The English captain then set about accelerating towards 400, blasting his way past the one hundred mark off just 57 deliveries and going to make h𒀰istory a꧒s the first player to hit 17 sixes in an ODI innings.
With Morgan making his way to the crease alongside Joe Root, England had their eyes set on 400 and Root joined in the fun with h꧂is first six as he too edged towards a century.
After Root was dismissed for 88, Morgan went on to hit his 17th six – a record in ODI cricket – before being dismissed for 148 (71 balls) with the very next ball.
England finally finished at 397-6 in t🅷heir full quota of 50 overs.
Here’s how Twitter reacted:
It’s an Eoin Morgan worl🅠d.. we are just living 🅺in it 😍😍😍
— Kate Cross (@katecross16)
Afghanistan ravaged by Hurricane Morgan
— Cricketwallah (@cricketwallah)
💯 for – the fourth-fastest century in the history of the tour𒅌nament, it comes off just 57 balls!
— ICC (@ICC)
RECORD-BREAKER!
Eoin Morgan hits ൲his 17th six of the innings – the most👍 ever hit in an ODI! |
— ICC Cricket World Cup (@cricketworldcup)
Seventeen Sixers???? Captain Morgan 🏏🏏🏏💯💯💯
— Vikrant Gupta (@vikrantgupta73)
Eoin Morgan becomes the first international cricketer to smash 100+ runs with sixes…
— Broken Cricket (@BrokenCricket)
17 s💙ixes. 17 x 6 = 10𓆉2. hit enough maximums to reach a century off sixes alone. Incredible.
— England's Barmy Army 🏴🎺 (@TheBarmyArmy)
Most sixes in an ODI inns:
17 Morgan
16 Rohit
16 Gayle
16 ABD
15 Watson— Bharath Seervi (@SeerviBharath)
Eoin Morꦅgaꦿn smashes record 17-sixes in a World Cup game!
— betvisa68.com (@CricketTimesHQ)
WORLD RECORD! 🤩
England captain, Eoin Morgan has hit the most number of sixes(17) in an ODI innings! 👏
UNREAL!— KolkataKnightRiders (@KKRiders)
RECORD BREAKER 🙌
1️⃣7️⃣ maximums for today, 𒊎the most ever in an ODI! 📈👊
— Middlesex Cricket (@Middlesex_CCC)
., ♌ and guide England to a mammoth total of 397/6
The England skipper broke the record for the maximum sixes ♔(17) in an ODI innings 👏👏
— SunRisers Hyderabad (@SunRisers)
Most sixes in an ODI innings:
17 EOIN MORGAN v Afghanistan (2019)
16 Rohit Sharma v Australia (2013)
16 AB de Villiers v West Indies (2015)
16 Chris Gayle v Zimbabwe (2015)— Sarang Bhalerao (@bhaleraosarang)
6️⃣6️⃣6️⃣6️⃣6️⃣6️⃣6️⃣6️⃣6🎐️ꦍ⃣6️⃣6️⃣6️⃣6️⃣6️⃣6️⃣6️⃣6️⃣
Yep, that's 17 sixes for – a new record in ODI cricket 🙌
— ESPNcricinfo (@ESPNcricinfo)
World record!
1⃣7⃣ sixes in Eoin Morgan's innings is the most maximums ever hit in an individual ODI innings 👏 |
— Wisden (@WisdenCricket)
