Ryan Rickelton's historic double century propels South Africa in World Test Championship

During the second Test against Pakistan at Cape Town's Newlands Stadium, the 28-year-old made this impressive achievement.

During his innings, Rickelton made 259 in 343 balls. His knock was laced with 29 fours and three sixes. His runs came at a strike rate of 75.51, which is the highest strike rate by a South African batter in a knock of 250-plus runs, outdoing Graeme Smith's knock of 277 in 373 balls against England in 2003, which came at a strike rate of 74.26.

South Africa's previous highest score in the ICC World Test Championship was a knock of 199 by Faf Du Plessis against Sri Lanka in 2020 at Centurion.

Also, this is the first double century by a South African batter in Tests while playing as an opener for the first time ever and only the fourth instance of such an innings, with previous being: Devon Conway , Graeme Smith , Sri Lanka's Brendon Kuruppu .

In the ongoing ICC World Test Championship cycle, Rickelton has scored 451 runs in six Tests at an average of 56.37, with a double century and a century in nine innings.

Coming to the match, South Africa, leading the series 1-0 already, won the toss and elected to bat first.

After being reduced to 72/3, a 235-run fourth-wicket stand between Rickelton and skipper Temba Bavuma , a 148-run sixth-wicket stand between Rickelton and wicketkeeper-batter Kyle Verreynne and an 86-run stand between Rickelton and Marco Jansen took Proteas to a massive 566/7 at the end of second session.

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