Abu Dhabi T10 league 2021: Rahmanullah Gurbaz smashes consecutive record breaking half centuries to set Twitter ablaze

Gurpreet Singh | 02/12/2021
Abu Dhabi T10 league 2021: Rahmanullah Gurbaz smashes consecutive record breaking half centuries to set Twitter ablaze

Abu Dhabi T10 league 2021: Rahmanullah Gurbaz smashes yet another half-century after a record-breaking fifty just the previous day.

During the 30th match of the ongoing Abu Dhabi T10 league at the Sheikh Zayed stadium, Abu Dhabi the Afghanistan and Delhi Bulls’ batter in the tournament- Rahmanullah Gurbaz played yet another scintillating knock against Team Abu Dhabi this time around to set the social media ablaze.

Having smashed the fastest half-century of the ongoing edition of the marquee league on Wednesday against the Chennai Braves off just 14 deliveries, Gurbaz made lives miserable for the Abu Dhabi bowlers tonight, going gaga while reaching the fifty off 18 deliveries.

Abu Dhabi T10 league 2021: Rahmanullah Gurbaz smashes yet another half-century

After being invited to bat by the Abu Dhabi skipper Liam Livingstone, the 20-year-old Afghan sensation was all over their bowlers like a rash right from the get go, smashing 69 off 29 deliveries at a strike rate of 237.93, thereby taking the Delhi Bulls total to 135/5 after the allotted 10 Overs. He hit 5 fours and 6 humongous sixes on his way to the onslaught.

With today’s knock Gurbaz has topped the chart of leading run-scorers, amassing a total of 310 runs across 10 innings so far, at an unbelievable strike rate of 223.02.

He is also placed on the second spot, just behind Liam Livingstone, in the list of highest number of sixes hit in the tournament so far with a total of 28 of them. Livingstone is just one six ahead with 29 after the end of the Delhi Bulls innings.

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Gurpreet Singh is a Cricket writer at The Sportsrush. His platonic relationship with sports had always been there since childhood, but Cricket managed to strike a special, intimate nerve of his heart. Although his initial dream of playing the sport at the highest level couldn't come to fruition, Gurpreet did represent the state of Jharkhand at the under-14 level. However, almost like taking a pledge to never let the undying passion for Cricket fade away even a tad, he made sure to continue the love relationship by assigning the field of journalism as an indirect Cupid. He thus, first finished his bachelor's in journalism and then pursued the PG Diploma course in English journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC). Soon after and since 2019, he has been working at The Sportsrush. Apart from sports, he takes keen interest in politics, and in understanding women and gender-related issues.

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