Rilee Rossouw and Mohammad Nawaz etched their names into the record books during a historic innings in the Pakistan Super League (PSL), becoming the first pair in the league’s history to score centuries in the same innings. Remarkably, this is only the 10th instance of such a feat in all men’s T20 cricket.
What makes their achievement even more unique is that both players were non-openers — Rossouw came in at No.3 and Nawaz at No.4 — marking the first time in men’s T20 history that two middle-order batters have scored centuries in the same innings.
This rare accomplishment had only previously occurred once in women’s T20 cricket: in 2019, Bangladesh’s Nigar Sultana (113* at No.3) and Fargana Hoque (110* at No.4) achieved the same against the Maldives.
Before Rossouw and Nawaz, the closest a men’s T20 innings had come to this feat was in June 2017, when Leinster Lightning’s Simi Singh scored 109 from No.3 and teammate Max Sorensen remained unbeaten on 98 at No.4 against Munster Reds in the Cricket Ireland Inter-Provincial Twenty20 Trophy.
