Rwanda’s Fanny Utagushimaninde says it was like “a dream” after becoming the youngest woman to make a Twenty20 international century at the age of 15 years and 223 days.<\/p>\n
Opening batter Utagushimaninde made an unbeaten 111 from 65 balls on her T20 debut in a 122-run victory over Ghana at a tournament in Lagos, Nigeria.<\/p>\n
She had reached three figures off 59 balls in the 18th over with a clip through mid-wicket off Ghana seamer Elizabeth Annor.<\/p>\n
The teenager eclipsed the previous record held by Uganda’s Prosscovia Alako, who was 16 years and 233 days old when she scored a hundred against Mali in June 2019.<\/p>\n
Utagushimaninde, who had came through a schools programme in Rwanda supported by the Marylebone Cricket Club Foundation, told BBC Sport it was slightly surreal when she reached the milestone.<\/p>\n
“It was a special moment for me and my cricket journey. A dream to achieve it on my debut at 15,” she said.<\/p>\n
“This shows my hard work, confidence and passion for the game. I’m grateful for the support from my coaches, team-mates and everyone around me.<\/p>\n
“I will keep pushing myself to improve and achieve more in the future.”<\/p>\n
Utagushimaninde’s score was also the highest by a woman on T20 debut, beating the 96 made by Australia’s Karen Rolton against England in 2005.<\/p>\n
Rwanda coach Leonard Nhamburo added: “This record-breaking performance is a testament of the hard work and dedication she did put in.<\/p>\n
“It’s something that Fanny earned through years of sacrifice and unwavering commitment to the game and a true testimony of how development cricket is coming through in Rwanda.”<\/p>\n
France’s Gustav Mckeon, at the age of 18 years and 280 days, is the youngest man to score a T20 international century for his 61-ball 109 against Switzerland in July 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rwanda’s Fanny Utagushimaninde says it was like “a dream” after becoming the youngest woman to make a Twenty20…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-488289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488289","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=488289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}