Mumbai Indians Star Joins Elite List With Century on County Debut for Hampshire

Young batter Tilak Varma impressed on his County Championship debut for Hampshire after he scored a century in their Division One match against Essex in Chelmsford on Monday. He scored exactly 100 runs from 241 balls before being dismissed by Simon Harmer in the 94th over.

Tilak Varma had resumed from his overnight score of 98. He hit 11 fours and three sixes during his knock.

Tilak Varma joins elite list

By scoring the century, Tilak Varma joined an elite list of cricketers. He became only the fourth Indian batter to score a century on County debut. Other Indian cricketers to have done so are Piyush Chawla (For Somerset in 2013), Murali Vijay (For Essex in 2018) and Ajinkya Rahane (For Hampshire in 2019).

At the time of updating this report, Hampshire were 327/5 in the first innings with Liam Dawson (101*) and Tom Prest (11*) unbeaten. Tilak Varma and Liam Dawson had forged a 133-run partnership for the fifth wicket. Hampshire are 31 runs ahead as they are currently replying to Essex’s first innings score of 296.

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It was announced only last week that Tilak Varma would be joining Hampshire for four matches of the County Championship. After the match against Essex, the left-handed batter will be available for three more matches.

Tilak Varma’s First-Class record

The Hyderabad cricketer has played 18 First-Class matches since making his debut in December 2018. He has scored 1204 runs from 28 innings at an average of 50.16, including four fifties and five hundreds. As far as his international career is concerned, Tilak Varma has played four ODIs and 25 T20Is for India. He has scored 68 runs from the four ODIs while aggregating 749 runs in the shortest format for the Men in Blue.

Tilak Varma was in action for Mumbai Indians (MI) in IPL 2025 recently. He enjoyed a pretty decent season, scoring 343 runs from 16 matches at a strike-rate of 138.31, including two fifties.

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