{"id":20323,"date":"2025-07-25T05:05:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T05:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/20323\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T05:05:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T05:05:08","slug":"mumbai-indians-star-smashes-century-continues-crazy-form-in-county-cricket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/20323\/","title":{"rendered":"Mumbai Indians Star Smashes Century; Continues Crazy Form in County Cricket"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tilak Varma has been having quite a red-ball season, with his second century for Hampshire<\/p>\n

Tilak Varma<\/a> has seized his opportunity, as the left-hander continued his dazzling run in the County Championship for Hampshire with a second century on July 24 (Thursday). The Mumbai Indians\u2019 batter brought up his second County cricket century, in the all-important clash against Nottinghamshire<\/a>, to keep Hampshire alive.\u00a0<\/p>\n

At 111\/2 in pursuit of 579, Tilak and Hampshire were a spot of bother, as more wickets could see them fold and hand the opposition points for a first-innings lead. Tough situation brought out the best in Tilak, as the left-hander played a well-grafted innings, with 112 off 256 deliveries.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Tilak<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t the first time that Tilak had shown his batting prowess in England, as the left-hander had scores of 56 and 47 in his last clash against Worcestershire and 100 on debut against Essex.\u00a0<\/p>\n

All he did was continue the same form, against a tough bowling attack that consisted of Pakistan international Mohammad Abbas and England international Josh Tongue, among other names. Tilak was the last batter to fall on the day, as Hampshire found themselves in a tricky position, at 367\/6, still needing 211 runs to wipe off the first-innings deficit.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a good innings, to be frank, because we lost crucial wickets at the wrong moment. It was important for me to stay there, and I\u2019m happy that it went well today,\u201d Tilak said after the day\u2019s play in a video posted by Hampshire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tilak Varma has been having quite a red-ball season, with his second century for Hampshire Tilak Varma has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-20323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}