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“IPL is helping English cricket”- Twitter reacts as Jonny Bairstow smashes the fastest Test hundred by an English player in last 100 years

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Jonny Bairstow
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Jonny Bairstow stole the show at Trent Bridge by scoring a century off 77 balls in the ongoing ICC World Test Championship match against the reigning champions, the New Zealand cricket team. Chasing 299 runs to win the second match of the series, the England cricket team lost four wickets before crossing the 100-run mark.

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Captain Ben Stokes arrived in the middle and formed an excellent fifth-wicket partnership with Jonny Bairstow. The two batters scored 179 runs in quick time and helped the team inch closer to the target. Bairstow scored 136 runs off 92 balls, smacking 14 fours and seven sixes. His knock ensured that the England cricket team had enough overs left to chase the remaining target.

At one moment, it looked like the match was headed towards a draw, but Bairstow’s magnificent performance, where he scored at a strike rate of 147.82 helped the English team cover the gap. Before the start of the play, New Zealand cricket team fast bowler Trent Boult hinted how the England Test coach Brendon McCullum could influence the run-chase. Here’s what he told stuff.co.nz:

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“I know their coach relatively well and I don’t think he’ll be shutting up shop. It’s exciting to come here in the morning with all of those results on the table and the boys are very excited for it. There was some hard work done throughout the last couple of days and I think the game is quite nicely poised.”

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Fans credit IPL and Brendon McCullum for the Jonny Bairstow show in Nottingham

It was the second-fastest hundred by an England batter in Test cricket and in the last 100 years, it was the fastest one. Here’s how fans on Twitter reacted to it: