{"id":23862,"date":"2026-02-17T08:50:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T06:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/canadas-samra-becomes-t20-world-cup-youngest-centurion\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:34:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:34:37","slug":"canadas-samra-becomes-t20-world-cup-youngest-centurion","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/canadas-samra-becomes-t20-world-cup-youngest-centurion\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada\u2019s Samra becomes T20 World Cup youngest centurion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Despite a record breaking century by Canadian opening batter, Yuvraj Singh Samra, New Zealand won their International Cricket Council (ICC) Men&#8217;s T20 World Cup encounter in Chennai by eight wickets to join South Africa as Super Eight qualifiers from Group D.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span class=\"x_elementtoproof\">Canada&#8217;s decision to bat first, was vindicated with Samra in fine fettle.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span class=\"x_elementtoproof\">The 19 year old named after the great Indian all-rounder, became the youngest ICC World Cup centurion in any format.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span class=\"x_elementtoproof\">The born and bred Canadian went on to score 110 off 65 deliveries, hitting 11 fours and six sixes, the highest individual score at this year&#8217;s tournament.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span class=\"x_elementtoproof\">It enabled Canada to post a reasonable 173 for four in their 20 overs.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span class=\"x_elementtoproof\">But his efforts were in vain as the Black Caps cantered to victory, reaching their target with 29 balls to spare.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span class=\"x_elementtoproof\">Rachin Ravindra and Glen Phillips put on an unbeaten 146 run third wicket partnership with Phillips smashing 76 off 36 balls to secure the important win.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span class=\"x_elementtoproof\">&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":20498,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-23862","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":null,"news_description":"ICC Men's T20 World Cup","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26704,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23862\/revisions\/26704"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=23862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}