Nepal’s men’s National squad captain Paras Khadka became the first-ever T20I centurion from the country when he made the feat during chasing a target set by Singapore in the T20I Tri-series being played in Singapore, also involving Zimbabwe.
In doing so, Khadka created few records for himself by achieving the feat. Firstly, he became the first ever National captain of any country to score a T20I century while chasing in a T20I match. Secondly, he became the first-ever T20I centurion for his country and joined a unique list of players, who have the achievement of being their respective country’s first-ever T20I centurion in Men’s T20I matches.
Here’s the list:
1) Chris Gayle (West Indies – 2007)
2) Brandon McCullum (New Zealand – 2010)
3) Suresh Raina (India – 2010)
4) Mahela Jayawardene (Sri Lanka – 2010)
5) Richard Levi (South Africa – 2012)
6) Richard Berrington (Scotland – 2012)
7) Aaron Finch (Australia – 2013)
8) Alex Hales (England – 2014)
9) Ahmed Shahzad (Pakistan – 2014)
10) Mohammad Shahzad (Afghanistan – 2016)
11) Babar Hayat (Hong Kong – 2016)
12) Tamim Iqbal (Bangladesh – 2016)
13) Shaiman Anwar (UAE – 2017)
14) Ravija Sandaruwan (Kuwait – 2019)
15) Tony Ura (Papua New Guinea – 2019)
16) Awais Ahmed (Spain – 2019)
17) Ravinderpal Singh (Canada – 2019)
18) JP Kotze (Namibia – 2019)
19) Sivakumar Periyalwar (Romania – 2019)
20) Sudesh Wickramasekara (Czech Republic – 2019)
21) Bilal Zalmai (Austria – 2019)
22) Paras Khadka (Nepal – 2019)
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