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Scotland’s Brandon McMullen plays a shot during their ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup League 2 match against UAE at the\u00a0Sportpark Maarschalkerweerd in Utrecht on May 14, 2025. \u2014 Cricket Scotland<\/p>\n
UTRECHT: Batting all-rounder Brandon McMullen on Wednesday, became the fastest Scotland batter to score 1000 runs in ODIs.<\/p>\n
McMullen achieved the feat during Scotland\u2019s eight-wicket victory over the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in the ICC Men\u2019s Cricket World Cup League 2 match here at the Sportpark Maarschalkerweerd.<\/p>\n
The right-handed batter played a pivotal role in leading Scotland to a comfortable victory as he backed his economical bowling figures of 3\/48 with a match-winning half-century.<\/p>\n
His unbeaten 50-run knock propelled him to breach the thousand-run barrier in the format in just 26th innings, making him the fastest Scottish batter, surpassing James Coetzer, who took 28 innings.<\/p>\n
Overall, Pakistan\u2019s Fakhar Zaman is the fastest batter to score 1000 runs in ODIs, achieving the milestone in just 18 innings. <\/p>\n
For his all-round brilliance, McMullen was also adjudged the Player of the Match.<\/p>\n
Reflecting on his match-winning performance, McMullen expressed satisfaction in contributing to the team\u2019s success and termed it a \u2018massive honour\u2019 to hold the record before expressing his hope that it gets broken in the future.<\/p>\n
“Conditions suited me today with the ball,” McMullen said. “Very happy to contribute to the team’s success today.<\/p>\n
“It’s been a bit frustrating the past couple of games with the bat, luckily today I went all the way through.<\/p>\n
“It’s a massive honour and privilege to hold that record and hopefully it gets broken in the future.”<\/p>\n
For the unversed, Brandon McMullen is also Scotland\u2019s second-highest run-scorer in the ICC Men\u2019s World Cup League 2 with 480 runs in 13 innings, only behind George Munsey, who accumulated 585 runs in 10 innings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scotland’s Brandon McMullen plays a shot during their ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup League 2 match against UAE…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[47152,1406,12647,712,79,2722,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-102054","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-brandon-mcmullen","9":"tag-cricket","10":"tag-odi","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-uae","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114508828919925143","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}