Glenn Phillips Played A New Shot ‘Switch Cover Drive’: New Zealand’s star batsman Glenn Phillips played a brilliant half-century in a match of the domestic league Super Smash. He batted aggressively and scored 90 runs in 48 balls, but two special shots were seen in this innings, due to which Phillips is in a happy mood. Both his shots are going viral on social media, in which Phillips is seen hitting a six and a four. A shot of Glenn Phillips got a new name which did not exist till now. Now this shot will be known as ‘Switch Cover Drive’.

Glenn Phillips dominates domestic tournament Super Smash

Glenn Phillips is dominating the domestic league Super Smash. Phillips is a right-handed batsman but he hit both these shots in lefty style. Phillips was playing for Otago and the match was against Central Districts, suddenly in the 19th over, Phillips played such a shot that everyone was stunned. Phillips changed from a right-handed stance to a left-handed stance; the bowler threw the ball towards the off stump to escape. But even here the bowler was not saved and Phillips hit a cover drive in cover lefty style and scored a four.

Left is right for Glenn Phillips

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Kevin Pietersen gave a switch hit

Earlier, a new shot was given to cricket by former England captain Kevin Pietersen, which became known as ‘Switch Hit’ across the world. After this, Suryakumar Yadav’s scoop shot was also much discussed. Now Philips has come up with Switch Cover Drive. Phillips also hit a six in this match, in which the right handed batsman became a left handed batsman and hit the six. This shot of his is also going viral.

Glenn Phillips loved it so much, he had to do it twice

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What did Glenn Phillips say on the shots?

Talking about his shots after the match, Glenn Phillips said, ‘I had practiced it for some time in net practice, but never came out openly. It is very interesting to play such shots in professional cricket. Last day in net practice, I was hitting better shots playing with my left hand than playing with my right hand. So when there was nothing left to lose, it seemed right to at least decide to give it a try.

First & Last Century In International Cricket In The Year 2025: The year 2025 was very memorable for international cricket, where the Indian women’s team won its first World Cup, while the South African men’s team succeeded in winning the ICC trophy after 27 years. This year, many memorable centuries were scored in all three formats of international cricket, which made the beginning and end of the year special. Be it patient innings in Test cricket or stormy centuries in ODI and T20 International, every innings became memorable. Here we are going to tell about the players who scored the first and last century in every format this year.

First century of the year 2025 in test cricket

Rahmat Shah of Afghanistan scored the first Test century of the year 2025. Rahmat played a brilliant inning of 139 runs in the second innings of the second Test played against Zimbabwe in Bulawayo. Thanks to this innings, Afghanistan team was able to score 363 runs and ultimately won the match by 72 runs.

First century of the year 2025 in ODI cricket

New Zealand’s Glenn Phillips scored the first ODI century of the year 2025. Phillips had scored unbeaten 106 runs on 74 balls in a tri-series match played against Pakistan in Lahore. Thanks to Phillips’ stormy batting, New Zealand made a big score of 330 runs and won the match by 78 runs.

First century of the year 2025 in T20 International

Sri Lanka’s Kusal Perera scored the first T20 International century of the year 2025. Perera played an explosive inning of 101 runs in just 46 balls in the match played against New Zealand in Nelson. With the help of this stormy century by Perera, Sri Lanka scored 218 runs and was successful in defeating New Zealand by 7 runs.

Last century of the year 2025 in test cricket

New Zealand’s Devon Conway scored the last Test century of the year 2025. Conway played an unbeaten inning of 100 runs in the second innings of the Test match played against West Indies at Mount Maunganui. Thanks to this century inning of Conway, New Zealand won the match by a huge margin of 323 runs.

Last century of the year 2025 in ODI cricket

India’s young opening batsman Yashasvi Jaiswal scored the last ODI century of the year 2025. Jaiswal scored unbeaten 116 runs while chasing in the third match against South Africa. With the help of his brilliant innings, India, chasing the target of 271 runs, won the match with 61 balls remaining at the loss of just one wicket.

Last century of the year 2025 in T20 International

Malaysia’s Muhammad Haziq Aiman ​​scored the last T20 International century of the year 2025. Aiman ​​played a brilliant inning of 113 runs while playing against Philippines in Bangkok. Thanks to this century, Malaysia scored 201 runs and won the match by a huge margin of 114 runs.

MI New York captain Nicholas Puran gave the last over in the hands of Rushil Ugarkar. Explosive batsmen like Glenn Maxwell and Glenn Philips were in front, only 12 runs were needed in the final over. In this last over, MI won the Major League 2025 title by defeating Washington Freedom by 5 runs in this last over.

Last over of Major League cricket final

Washington Freedom scored 169/4 after 19 overs. Glenn Maxwell 14 and Glenn Philips were unbeaten on 47 runs, the match was completely in the hands of Washington. MI New York captain Nicholas Puran gave the last over in the hands of Rushil Ugarkar.

• 19.1- Glenn Maxwell took 1 run.
• 19.2- Glenn Philips took 1 run.
• 19.3- No run.
• 19.4- Wickets- Glenn Maxwell caught out.
• 19.5- No run.
• 19.6- Obas Peener hit a four.

Rachin Ravindra and Glenn Philips innings useless

Washington Freedom had a target of 181 runs to win. Rachin Ravindra played a brilliant innings of 70 runs in 41 balls with the help of 2 sixes and 8 fours. Glenn Philips finally played an unbeaten innings of 48 runs, but he could not win. In this innings played in 34 balls, Philips hit 5 sixes,

Dasun shanaka gujarat titans: Gujarat Titans have announced the replacement of Glenn Philips. Gujarat has included Sri Lankan player Dasun Shanaka in the team. Philips was injured during the match against Sunrisers Hyderabad in IPL 2025. After this, the team gave Shanaka a chance. Shanaka is an all -rounder player and has shown amazing on many occasions. Along with his batting, there is a good record in bowling.

Actually, Gujarat’s fourth match in IPL 2025 was from Hyderabad. The match was played on 6 April at the Rajiv Gandhi Stadium. He was fielding for Gujarat during the match. They were injured during fielding. He has not been able to play a single match for the team this season. But the substitute against Hyderabad took to the field as a player. He came on the field during the fifth over of Hyderabad’s innings. But after getting injured, he went out of the field.

How much salary will be given to Gujarat Titans Shanaka –

Gujarat has now included Shanaka in the team in place of Glenn Philips. They will get 75 lakh rupees as a salary. Shanaka has been able to play only once in IPL. He was part of Gujarat in IPL 2023. He played 3 matches this season.

Shanaka has been performing so far –

Shanaka’s T20 record has been excellent. He has played 243 matches so far. During this, 4449 runs have been scored. Shanaka has scored 3 centuries and 16 half -centuries in T20. He has also taken 91 wickets with this. Shanaka has also played 102 T20 International matches. He has scored 1456 runs here. There are also 33 wickets with this. He has played 71 ODIs for Sri Lanka. It has scored 1299 runs. During this time, you have taken 27 wickets.

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Glenn Phillips Gujarat Titans: The next match of Gujarat Titans in IPL 2025 is against Lucknow Super Giants. This match will be played in Lucknow on Saturday. Before this, there is bad news for the team. Gujarat, a magnificent all -rounder Glenn Philips, has been ruled out of IPL 2025. According to a report, Philips have been injured. His injury is so serious that now he is out of the entire season. Gujarat has not yet announced the name of any other player in place of Philips.

The real reason for Philips being out of IPL 2025 has not been known yet. According to a report by Cricbuzz, Philips has a problem in the waist. He is out of the tournament due to injury. But Gujarat Titans have not given any official information about this yet. The important thing is that Philips did not get a chance to play a single match yet in this season.

update in progress…

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Glenn Phillips Injury: Glen Philips, one of New Zealand’s Dhakad cricketer and one of the best fielders in the world, had not yet played in IPL 2025. Now the Gujarat Titans fielded him as a substitute against Sunrisers Hyderabad. Before that he could win the hearts of fans with his tremendous fielding, Philips went out of the field due to injury. Recall that Philips was bought by Gujarat for Rs 2 crore in the mega auction.

This incident is of the sixth over of Sunrisers Hyderabad’s innings. Ishaan Kishan ran for a run off the fourth ball of the famous Krishna’s over. Meanwhile, Glenn Philips threw thrown at the speed of electricity. Immediately after throwing the ball, the Philips fell on the ground while hitting Gulatiyan. Physio was immediately called on the field, which took Philips out of the field. So far no official statement has been revealed on the injury of Philips.

Not a single match played in IPL 2025

Glenn Philips is currently one of the best fielders in the world. White ball has established a special identity for his stormy innings in cricket. Despite this, the management of the Gujarat team has not given Philips a chance to play a single match in IPL 2025 yet. Philips has so far scored only 65 runs in 8 matches played in the Indian Premier League and has also taken 2 wickets playing the role of all -rounder.

In this entire match, Gujarat Titans head coach Aashese Nehra looked quite active as usual. He was seen screaming due to Sai Sudarshan leaving the catch. Apparently, he must have been very disappointed even after the injury of Philips.

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Glenn Phillips Fielding: Cricket has got the best fielders like Jonty Rhodes, Ravindra Jadeja and AB de Villiers. But for some time, Glenn Philips of New Zealand has remained in the headlines due to his fielding more than his fierce batting. They are very agile, agile, like they are genetic and catching in the style of Superman is not new for him. Now an interview of him has come out, in which he told that if he had not been a cricketer, he would have been working in which profession.

According to the news agency PTI, Glenn Philips would have been working as a pilot if he had not been a cricketer. He said, “If I would not have been playing cricket and had a lot of money, I might have been working as a pilot. I like to fly in the air and a pilot whatever work, I like all that, whether it is to talk on the radio or to run the plane. I don’t know why I like it, but this is the other thing that I enjoy after cricket.”

VIDEO | New Zealand Cricketer Glenn Phillips Talks about his passion of flying which is part of his post retirement plan:

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New Zealand Cricket Board has helped

Glenn Philips says that as soon as he started getting success in the cricket career, his dream of becoming a pilot also went away. However, he has entered the world of flight simulation. Even with the help of New Zealand Cricket Board, he found admission in Emirates Training Center. There he has taken official training of flight simulation.

Glenn Philips has especially made a distinct identity in white ball cricket. So far, in 44 ODIs, he has scored 1,112 runs at a strike rate of around 102, including a century and 5 fifty. On the other hand, his strike rate in T20 matches is more than 140. So far, he has scored 1,929 runs in 83 international T20 matches. He also has 2 centuries and 10 fifty in T20.

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