Baroda wicketkeeper-batter Amit Passi announced his arrival in spectacular fashion, smashing a century on his T20 debut and equalling the world record for the highest score in a maiden T20 appearance during his team’s final league match of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy (SMAT) on Monday.

The 26-year-old hammered 114 off 55 deliveries, an innings studded with 10 fours and nine sixes, to power Baroda to a 13-run victory over Services. His blistering knock places him alongside Pakistan’s Bilal Asif, who scored an identical 114 off 48 balls for Sialkot Stallions in Faisalabad in 2015, the joint-highest individual score by a debutant in men’s T20 cricket.

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Passi also became only the third Indian to score a century on T20 debut, following Punjab’s Shivam Bhambri and Hyderabad’s Aksh

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