Playing for the Bellary Tuskers in the Karnataka Premier League, Krishnappa Gowtham performed an all-round performance on Friday, 23 August, which surprised everyone. He showed both his batting and his bowling against the Shivamogga Lions in this T20 match.Gowtham batted in this match, scoring an unbeaten innings of 134 off 56 balls. While bowling he took 8 wickets for 15 runs in 4 overs and also took 2 catches. It seemed as if Gowtham was playing alone on the field. Despite this, however, he could not find a place in the record books of world cricket.
In this blazing innings, Gowtham completed his century in just 39 balls. This is the fastest century in the history of Karnataka Premier League. Apart from this, he scored an unbeaten innings of 134 off 59 balls, which is the biggest innings in KPL history. Gowtham hit 7 fours and 13 sixes during this innings. His name also holds the record for hitting the most sixes in an innings and the most runs scored in an innings from the boundary.
Thanks to this magnificent innings, Bellary’s team scored 203 runs for 3 wickets in 20 overs. After this, when Gowtham got down to bowling, he also made history in it. Gowtham took 8 wickets for 15 runs in his spell of 4 overs.During this time he also took a hat-trick.Due to this amazing all-round performance, his team won the match by a margin of 70 runs.
If you look at this performance of Gowtham, hardly anyone has performed such an all-round performance in T20 but he has not got a place in T20 Records. The reason for this is that the T20 leagues of the state have not officially got the status of T20 matches. Hence his performance will be included in other T20 leagues. Gowtham also had a bang for the Rajasthan Royals in the IPL.