Brisbane [Australia], October 9 (ANI): Australia’s batter Marnus Labuschagne continued his scorching run of kind in home cricket following the ODI snub, smashing his second century of the One Day Cup in opposition to Tasmania on Thursday.
Through the match in opposition to Tasmania, Labuschagne, captaining the Queensland facet, smashed a 91-ball 105, with eight fours and two sixes, with a strike charge of over 115.
It was his century, and high quality knocks from Jack Clayton (64 in 51 balls, with seven fours and a six) and Matt Renshaw (38 in 35 balls, with three fours and two sixes) took his facet to 311 runs, which Tasmania chased down on account of fiery knocks of Caleb Jewell (79 in 76 balls, with 13 fours), Tim Ward (105 in 96 balls, with 5 fours and three sixes) and Jordan Silk (85* in 61 balls, with 9 fours and a six).
Through the ongoing One Day Cup, Labuschagne is the second-highest run-getter with 237 runs in three innings at a median of 79.00, with two centuries, with 130 coming in opposition to Victoria.
Having not registered even a half-century in his final 10 ODI innings and scoring simply 138 runs with greatest rating of 47, Labuschagne was dropped from ODI squad for 3 matches at dwelling in opposition to India from October 19 onwards.
Just lately on Monday, this elegant right-hander had additionally scored an excellent 160 in his facet’s Sheffield Protect match in opposition to Tasmania and the most recent ton is his third in 4 innings.
Labuschagne is with no century in his previous 49 worldwide matches, having scored simply 12 fifties in 57 innings at a median of lower than 30.
His kind has been even worse in red-ball cricket, along with his final Check century coming in opposition to England again in July 2023. Since then, he has been in a position to muster simply 668 runs in 16 matches and 30 innings at a median of 24.74, with seven fifties and a greatest rating of 90. Whereas he was chosen for the West Indies tour this 12 months for the Check matches, he didn’t get to play a single match.
With the primary ball of the house Ashes to be bowled on November 21 at Perth, Labuschagne can be aiming to proceed along with his home grind, rating truckload of runs to earn again his place within the crew. (ANI)
