The decision of the Delhi Capitals team to include 22-year-old young Australian player Jack Fraser McGurk in their playing 11 in the match against Lucknow Super Giants in IPL 2024 proved to be completely right for them. McGurk, whom Delhi included in their team this season as a replacement for Lungi Ngidi, showed such amazing performance with the bat in his IPL debut match that everyone was quite impressed. The Delhi Capitals team, which came to chase the target of 168 runs, lost both its opening batsmen on the score of 63 in this match. From here, McGurk along with captain Rishabh Pant made the match completely one-sided. McGurk’s bat saw an inning of 55 runs in just 35 balls which included 2 fours and 5 sixes.
McGurk is the fourth player to hit most sixes in IPL debut match
Talking about Jack Fraser McGurk, he has also been a part of Australia’s Under 19 team. Apart from this, he has also played in IL T20 for Dubai Capitals. He has also played 2 ODI matches for the Australian team so far. Jack Fraser is known for his explosive batting, in which he hit 5 sixes in his IPL debut match itself. With this, he has become the fourth player to hit the most sixes in the debut match of this T20 league. Before him, Brendon McCullum had hit 13 sixes in his IPL debut match, while Michael Hussey had hit 9 sixes and Kyle Mayers had hit 7 sixes in his IPL debut match. Apart from this, Jack Fraser McGurk is the 11th player to score a half-century in his IPL debut match.
Hit Krunal Pandya for 3 consecutive sixes.
Against all-rounder Krunal Pandya, who has bowled best for Lucknow Super Giants so far this season, Jack Fraser McGurk completely spoiled his line length by hitting three sixes in three consecutive balls. Jack Fraser McGurk, making his IPL debut for Delhi Capitals, has scored the second highest score, falling just 4 runs away from breaking Gautam Gambhir’s 16-year-old record. Gambhir played an unbeaten inning of 58 runs in his IPL debut match for Delhi in 2008.
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