[Watch]: Eire’s Amy Hunter turns into youngest centurion in worldwide cricket on her sixteenth birthday

Eire Ladies batter Amy Hunter made historical past on Monday as she turned the youngest participant to ever rating a century in worldwide cricket. Within the recreation between Eire Ladies and Zimbabwe Ladies, Hunter produced a shocking knock to etch her identify within the historical past books.

Hunted celebrated her sixteenth birthday by scoring her first-ever worldwide ton in solely her fourth ODI. The knock helped her turn out to be the youngest participant to succeed in triple figures in worldwide cricket. Hunter broke the file beforehand held by Indian batter Mithali Raj, who was 16 years and 205 days outdated when she scored 100 on her debut greater than 20 years in the past.

Amy Hunter additionally turned solely the fourth batter to ever rating 100 for Eire Ladies and the primary since 2000. She ended up with a rating of 121* off simply 127 balls, scoring eight boundaries within the course of. Hunter’s rating is the all-time rating by an Eire girls’s participant in ODI cricket.

It was unbelievable: Amy Hunter after scoring history-making hundred for Eire Ladies

Amy Hunter was delighted to attain the hundred that helped her make historical past. She mentioned that she felt extra nervous earlier than attending to her half-century than she did whereas closing in on the unbelievable milestone of reaching her first 100. Hunter said after her innings:

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“It clearly feels actually good. I simply needed to stay by and get there after which after I obtained to my hundred I had no thought what to do (laughs). It was unbelievable. I most likely felt extra nervous earlier than my 50. I used to be simply delighted to be on the market. From 50 to 100 felt prefer it went quite a bit faster than from 0 to 50. In order that was actually good.”

Amy Hunter’s unbelievable ton noticed Eire Ladies rack up a frightening whole of 312 for 3 after 50 overs.