{"id":150782,"date":"2025-09-21T08:02:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T08:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/150782\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T08:02:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T08:02:18","slug":"sidra-amin-is-the-first-pakistani-woman-to-score-consecutive-odi-centuries-and-the-internet-cant-keep-calm-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/150782\/","title":{"rendered":"Sidra Amin is the first Pakistani woman to score consecutive ODI centuries and the internet can\u2019t keep calm &#8211; Comment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistani sports fans haven\u2019t had a great week. The <a href=\"https:\/\/images.dawn.com\/news\/1194148\/pakistanis-and-indian-right-wingers-finally-have-something-in-common-neither-want-any-more-pak-ind-matches\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">men\u2019s cricket team<\/a> lost to India in the Asia Cup on Sunday and <a href=\"https:\/\/images.dawn.com\/news\/1194167\/chin-up-champ-pakistanis-on-x-have-arshad-nadeems-back-after-world-athletics-exit\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arshad Nadeem<\/a> missed out on the podium at the World Athletics Championships on Thursday. In these dark times, Sidra Amin gave the country the little bit of light we all needed.<\/p>\n<p>Amin scored her second consecutive century against South Africa on Friday, becoming the first Pakistani woman to score back to back hundreds in the One Day International (ODI) format. Out of the 10 ODI centuries scored by Pakistani players, Amin has been responsible for six.<\/p>\n<p>X was in celebration mode as netizens praised Amin, brushing away how the batting line collapsed after Amin\u2019s dismissal and Pakistan ended up getting taken out just 25 runs short of their target. Former skipper Bismah Maroof led tributes, underscoring just how impressive the team\u2019s performance was.<\/p>\n<p>Fans said Amin was the best ODI batter we had, asking the player to take a bow and calling her the Greatest of All Time (GOAT).<\/p>\n<p>Amin struck an iconic pose upon scoring her century, holding up six digits to the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>        Sidra Amin holding up her fingers to celebrate her sixth ODI century as Natalia Pervaiz looks on.\n    <\/p>\n<p>A fan who\u2019d chosen Friday to step away from the TV screen regretted their decision immediately after hearing the news.<\/p>\n<p>Other fans, exhausted by cricket generally, struck jabs at Pakistan\u2019s men\u2019s team and its former skipper Babar Azam.<\/p>\n<p>Amin even received love from across the border in a wholesome post by an Indian fan who said Pakistan can\u2019t be taken lightly in the upcoming Women\u2019s World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>After taking a moment to celebrate Amin, cricket fans across Pakistan are bracing as the men\u2019s team prepares to take on India in the Asia Cup for their second encounter on Sunday. We\u2019ll be watching \u2014 and praying \u2014 will you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pakistani sports fans haven\u2019t had a great week. The men\u2019s cricket team lost to India in the Asia&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-150782","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}