Ireland vs New Zealand, 3rd ODI: Martin Guptill has come close to breaking Sunil Gavaskar’s record. This New Zealand opener has scored 18th ODI century at the age of 35. With the help of his century, New Zealand made a huge score of 360 runs for 6 wickets in 50 overs against Ireland in the last ODI of the 3-match series. Martin Guptill scored 115 runs in 126 balls with the help of 15 fours and 2 sixes. Apart from him, Henry Nicholls scored 79 runs. Henry Nicholls hit 7 fours and 3 sixes in his 54-ball knock.
Martin Guptill, born on 30 September 1986 in Auckland, has reached 12977 international runs. He is the fifth highest international run scorer for New Zealand. He is now just 237 runs behind the great Sunin Gavaskar’s record of 13214 international runs. This is Guptill’s second century in five ODIs this year. If he keeps scoring runs at this speed, then soon he will break Sunil Gavaskar’s record.
Martin Guptill has played 47 Tests, 191 ODIs and 112 T20 Internationals in his career so far. In this he has scored 2586, 7092 and 3299 runs respectively. He is third behind Rohit Sharma (3379) and Virat Kohli (3308) in terms of highest run scorer in T20 Internationals.