Cricketer David Miller joined the 500 T20s club scoring a huge 71 runs off 34 balls in the ongoing CPL. The Barbados Royals (BR) player played his 500th T20 during today’s match with Guyana Amazon Warriors (GAW). He is the first South African cricketer to reach this milestone. He is the sixth member to join this club while the other five players are Kieron Pollard, Dwayne Bravo, Shoaib Malik, Sunil Philip Narine, and Andre Russell.
During an interview, on asking about his experience of playing 500 T20s, the player said, “It’s a really proud moment. When I look at all those years back when I first started, I never imagined to be playing this amount of games, so it’s a special milestone. I suppose, as a cliché, it’s just another game, but it’s a really cool achievement.”
The 27th match of Caribbean Premier League was played between Guyana Amazon Warriors and Barbados Royals on Wednesday, 26th September. The Warriors won the game by 47 runs scoring 219. However, in the middle order, David Miller has played extraordinarily for the team scoring 71 off 34 balls with five sixes and eight boundaries at a strike rate of 208.82. Following the game, Guyana Amazon Warriors secured the second top position in the table and Barbados Royals remained at third position.
Throughout the T20 career, David Miller has accumulated 10,678 runs at a strike rate exceeding 137. He has a total of notched four centuries and 48 fifties. Games like T20 World Cups, Caribbean Premier League, South Africa’s T20 Premier League, Indian Premier League, Major League Cricket, Pakistan Super League, and Big Bash League have witnessed the power of David Miller. In Caribbean Premier League alone, Miller has scored 152 runs in six matches with strike rate above 142.
Playing for so many years, David Miller shared his experience of improvement in batting saying, “Understanding that failure is a part of the game. I really think that as you get older, you understand your game a lot better. You think more clearly under pressure. Success in this game is never guaranteed, so you can have all the experience and knowledge, but you still got to produce it, right? Accepting the fact that you are always going to get criticism – whether you do well or bad. So, for me, it’s just being a lot clearer in those moments. It gives you a better chance to succeed and I feel like I’m a lot clearer under pressure.”
