Scotland cricketer George Munsey has been reliving his amazing Twenty20 innings from Easter Sunday when he smashed 147 off just 39 balls.
Munsey, the 26-year-old left handed batsman, made the landmark score - including six sixes in one over - for Gloucestershire’s second XI against Bath CC in a T20 friendly.
Led by the superb Munsey salvo, Gloucestershire’s team posted a mammoth 326-3 from their 20 overs batting first before going on to win by 112 runs.
Munsey, who is due to be with the county until the end of this week before travelling back north, notched up his century in just 25 balls and cracked five fours and 20 sixes in total with the Bath bowlers unsure where to bowl to the hard hitter.
Earlier in the day Munsey had got his eye in by making 78 off just 32 balls for Scotland ‘A’ in a 66 run T20 triumph against Gloucestershire second XI before switching ranks and continuing on his merry way.
He said of the 49-minute knock: “I was feeling in good form from earlier in the day and Bath opened the bowling with spin and I managed to get my eye in early.
“From there I just knuckled down and kept going really. It helped me that Greg [Willows, his opening partner who made 115 from 59 balls] was also batting well and we had fun out there.
“You don’t often hit six sixes in an over so it was one of the highlights of my career so far. You just try and play each ball as it comes and I was hitting the ball sweetly so it was very pleasing.”
Munsey is set to continue playing for Gloucestershire’s second string this week before the domestic season starts north of the border at the weekend.
Scotland’s first international of the summer is against Afghanistan on May 8 in Edinburgh.
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