Cricketer scores 160no, eight Mpumalanga players get ducks in 169-8
Friday 16 December 2016 16:12, UK
Shania-Lee Swart went a long way to disproving the notion that 'one player doesn't make a team' while playing for Mpumalanga's U19 team last weekend.
Swart opened the innings for her team and scored an unbeaten 160 off only 86 balls at Baloyi Field in Pretoria, 15 runs below the world best T20 score set by West Indies great Chris Gayle playing in the Indian Premier League in 2013.
But all the more remarkable was that Swart's score came in a team total of 169-8 and each and every one of her team-mates to get a bat returned to the pavillion without adding a single run.
Swart hit 18 fours and 12 sixes in her innings with the remaining nine runs coming in the form of a leg-bye, five wides and three no-balls.
Her biggest partnership of 61 runs came for the ninth wicket alongside Nicholate Phiri, who only faced three balls and of course failed to score. She also added 50 for the fourth wicket alongside Yonella Vellelo.
Swart went on to open the bowling for Mpumalanga as well and returned excellent figures of 2-21 in her four overs as they beat Easterns U19s by 42 runs.
