{"id":932089,"date":"2026-10-18T01:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T01:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/932089\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T01:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T01:46:11","slug":"cricket-2026-jake-fraser-mcgurk-hits-49-ball-century-for-south-australia-in-one-day-cup-first-50-off-14-balls-latest-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/932089\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket 2026: Jake Fraser McGurk hits 49 ball century for South Australia in One Day Cup, first 50 off 14 balls, latest news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jake Fraser-McGurk has reignited his quest for an international recall, shattering records with a spectacular century to lead South Australia to victory in the One-Day Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Regarded as one of Australia\u2019s most explosive batters, the 24-year old lost his place in both the ODI and T20I team in 2025, having made just one century and averaged 14 across 15 matches in the limited-overs formats.<\/p>\n<p>But opening the batting at Adelaide\u2019s Karen Rolton Oval, Fraser-McGurk bashed ten fours and nine sixes against an undermanned Queensland attack for a whirlwind 63-ball 122 to remind selectors of his ability to clear the fences 12 months out from the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content i-amphtml-replaced-content\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1792287971_471_poster-fallback.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Watch Australia\u2019s Tour of South Africa Live &amp; Exclusive on Fox Cricket, available on <a href=\"https:\/\/kayosports.com.au\/en-AU\/welcome\/cricket?extcamp=fsaeditoriallinkcricket-edt-fsp-lnk-awr-grc-cri-kyo&amp;channel=fsa&amp;campaign=fsacontra\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Kayo Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Five of those sixes came in reaching 50 off just 14 balls, the fourth-fastest ever recorded in List A cricket and the fastest in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>He slowed down from there as leg-spinner Mitchell Swepson proved tougher to hit, but still brought up three figures off 49 balls, the third-fastest ever in an Australian one-day match \u2013 if well short of the staggering 29-ball record he set three years ago that propelled him into the international mix.<\/p>\n<p>Both centuries came at the Karen Rolton Oval, where he averages 68.66 with a strike rate north of 200 \u2013 figures that comfortably eclipse an average of 20.55 with just one half-century in 32 List A innings at other venues.<\/p>\n<p>Fraser-McGurk put on 129 for the opening wicket with Mackenzie Harvey off just 69 balls, and was remarkably dismissed by the 21st over, with the Redbacks\u2019 score approaching 200.<\/p>\n<p>Nathan McSweeney scored a measured 106 off 103 balls to continue his exceptional run of form following on from his work with Australia A on their recent tour of India, to set the Bulls a whopping 398 for victory.<\/p>\n<p>It was McSweeney\u2019s third List A century, and his second in just four matches.<\/p>\n<p>They never got close, with Lachlan Hearne\u2019s defiant 121 in vain as they were bowled out in 40.1 overs for a gallant 271, to seal a 126-run Redbacks win.<\/p>\n<p>Quick Spencer Johnson, another recent limited-overs international, took his maiden List A five-wicket haul, including bowling Hearne with a vicious yorker to end his 104-ball resistance and the match.<\/p>\n<p>Fraser-McGurk made international headlines with a stunning run of form at the 2024 IPL, where he averaged 36 at an eye-watering strike rate of 234.04 with four half-centuries.<\/p>\n<p>However, he crashed back to earth a year later with just 55 runs in six innings, before going unsold at auction for the 2026 tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jake Fraser-McGurk has reignited his quest for an international recall, shattering records with a spectacular century to lead&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":932090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-932089","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\/932089","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=932089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/932090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}