Amy Hunter has run the adolescent batter to score an foreign century, playing for Ireland in their women’s clash against Zimbabwe On her 16th birthday on Monday, Hunter struck an unbeaten 121 in Harare to come the adolescent player, man-size or feminine, to score a hundred in foreign equitableness The youthful masculine batter was Shahid Afridi who scored 102 against Sri Lanka aged 16 and 217 days in 1996, while the youthful woman anteriorly was Mithali Raj with 114 not out against Ireland aged 16 and 205 days in 1999.
Hunter’s 121 enabled Ireland, having been put into to rod, to make 3-312 from their 50 overs. Zimbabwe were limited to 8-227 giving Ireland win by 85 runs and the four- match series 3-1.
The teenager’s runs came off 127 deliveries and included eight fours “ It’s unimaginable to be honest,”Hunter said of her feat At the moment I can not like get my head around it. Initially I supposed (the record) was just in Ireland and either when they said it was overall, it’s just unimaginable “I did not feel nervous. As I got in, I felt more and more comfortable and either obviously I was a bit nervous bringing up the 50, it was such a big climacteric just to get there. And either to be honest I did not yea allow about the hundred.
“Once it camealong.I did not know what to do, I did not know if I should take my helmet off or not Hunter made her one- day transnational debut against Zimbabwe in the first game of the series on October 5, and before present had only amassed seven runs from three innings Her transnational debut came against Scotland at Belfast in May.