On 5 September, in the Caribbean Premier League match between St Lucia Kings and Nevis Patriots, Faf du Plessis scored an unbeaten 124 with a brilliant century, and after that St Lucia Kings registered a huge victory.
Faf du Plessis’s score of 120 runs is the third highest score ever in the Caribbean Premier League. Big scores have been made by Andre Russell which is 121 runs, Brendan King has scored which is of 132 runs.
Faf du Plessis’s magic century has stopped the Nevis Patriots’ victory chariot. Nevis Patriots were winning consecutively in the last five matches but Faf du Plessis’s innings of 120 runs stopped the Nevis Patriots’ victory chariot. And the Kings registered a resounding victory.
Faf du Plessis is playing for the St Lucia Kings team in the ongoing CPL in 2021. Where Faf du Plessis has scored his first century. Faf du Plessis has scored his first century of CPL 2021 and his century managed to stop the victory chariot of Nevis Patriots.
St Lucia Kings, batting first, put a huge score of 224 runs on the score board. And South Africa’s brilliant batsman Faf du Plessis scored his first century in which he scored an unbeaten 120 and this is the third highest score of this competition so far.
Faf du Plessis, batting for St Lucia Kings, scored an unbeaten 120 off 60 balls with 13 fours and 5 sixes.
The roster change also scored a half-century in 25 balls and this is his second half-century of this season. Nevis Patriots could not face such a big score of St Lucia Kings and in just 16.5 overs, Nevis Patriots finished on 124 runs. In the Nevis Patriots, Evin Lewis scored 73 runs in just 42 balls due to his superb form. But they didn’t get a good partnership of any kind. Due to which Nevis Patriots did not manage to win this match.
Similarly, the batsmen did not stop doing wonders and the bowling was also doing a lot.
In the bowling, Alzarri Joseph took 3wickets in just 3.5overs for Kings and gave only 27runs and from the other side, Keemo Paul of the new Nevis Patriots took 3wickets in just 3overs and gave 23runs.
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