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Cricketer hits 160 runs and is only player to score for team in remarkable victory

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Eight of Shania-Lee Swart’s team-mates came and went during her innings of 160. Photograph: Zoonar GmbH/Alamy Stock Photo

Shania-Lee Swart hit 160 runs and was the only player to score in her side’s innings as all eight of her fellow batters failed to get off the mark at Cricket South Africa’s Under-19s week in Pretoria.

The Mpumalanga batter Swart opened and struck 18 fours and 12 sixes in her side’s total of 169 for eight, facing 86 balls in a 42-run win over Easterns with extras accounting for the additional nine runs.

Swart also took two for 21 with the ball as Easterns, for whom Tumi Sekukune finished with figures of five for 15, were restricted to 127 for six in their innings.

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