South Africa recorded three centuries in a single innings throughout the ICC ODI World Cup 2023 match in opposition to Sri Lanka in Delhi on Saturday. That is the primary time in World Cup historical past that three batters from a single group have hit a century.

After being requested to bat by Sri Lanka, South Africa’s opener, Quinton de Kock, notched up a century, adopted by quantity three Rassie van der Dussen, who scored his first-ever World Cup hundred.

Their efforts have been additional bolstered by Aiden Markam, who recorded 100 in simply 49 balls, setting a brand new World Cup file for the quickest century.

Now, South Africa stands alone as the only group to have notched up three centuries in a single ODI innings. That they had achieved this outstanding feat twice earlier than, in 2015 in opposition to West Indies and India.

England is the one different group to have scored three a whole bunch in an innings, in opposition to the Netherlands in 2022 the place it recorded the highest-ever ODI complete of 498 runs.