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Shoaib Malik's nephew becomes 8th youngest batsman to score 300 in FC cricket

Pakistani youngster Mohammad Huraira, Shoaib Malik's nephew, is the 9th teenager to score a triple century in First Class cricket.

Shoaib Maliks nephew becomes 8th youngest batsman to score 300 in FC cricket
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Muhammad Huraira in action in the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy (Twitter/MuhammadHuraira)

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The Bridge Desk

Updated: 20 Dec 2021 8:17 AM GMT

Muhammad Huraira of Pakistan, a 19-year-old opening batsman playing his debut season, became the eighth youngest batsman in history to score a triple century in First Class cricket playing for Northern in a Quaid-e-Azam Trophy match against Balochistan at the SBP Stadium in Karachi on Monday.

Shoaib Malik's nephew, Huraira had told PakPassion: "I am very fortunate that Shoaib Malik is my uncle and he has always been an inspiration for me. He has always encouraged me to not give up and to continue working hard as there are no shortcuts to success in cricket."

The Sialkot-born batsman, aged 19 years and 239 days is also the second youngest Pakistani batsman, after Javed Miandad, who scored a triple century in 1975, with this feat. Huraira's 300 came off 327 balls at a strike rate of 92. Playing in his debut FC season, this is his third century in 10th match.

He scored consecutive FC centuries in his second and third games though his highest score before this was 112. Named in Pakistan's squad for the 2020 Under-19 Cricket World Cup, the young batsman has said before that Kane Williamson, Virat Kohli and Babar Azam are his role models.

Youngest triple centurions

The youngest triple centurion remains Miandad. Of the seven others younger than Huraira, three are from India - Wasim Jaffer, Abhinav Mukund, Rishabh Pant.

The others are Afghanistan's Bahir Shah, Bangladesh's Raqibul Hasan and West Indies' Frank Worrell. India's Kripal Singh is the ninth and last teenage triple centurion.

(Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians)



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