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[caption id="attachment_31332" align="aligncenter" width="580"] Shania-Lee Swart scored 160 runs off 86 balls and went on to take 2 wickets. Image Source: Facebook[/caption] Internet Desk: Many cricketers have been credited with winning the matches by their own. But when it comes to Mpumalanga’s Under-19 women’s side, that quote can be used in it’s literal sense to describe an innings now. In perhaps the most remarkable T-20 innings ever recorded, opening batter Shania-Lee Swart scored 160 out of Mpumalanga’s 9-169, with her team-mates contributing a grand total of zero. Mpumalanga’s innings featured eight duck, while No.10 batter Nicholate Phiri remained not out on naught. Extras, with nine, was the next best and only other score. Swart’s 86-ball 160 runs featured 18 fours and 12 sixes is one of the brilliant performances in recent memory. [caption id="attachment_31333" align="aligncenter" width="604"] The remarkable scorecard. Image Source: websports.co.za[/caption]   The Protease opener put on 50 for the fourth wicket with Yonello Vellelo before combining with Phiri to record an unbeaten stand of 61, with the tail-ender facing just three balls. Swart then opened the bowling and claimed 2-21 from her four overs as Mpumalanga beat Easterns Under-19 (6-126) by 42 runs during Cricket South Africa's Under-19 Girls National Cricket Week in Pretoria. Swart scored a whopping 95 per cent of her team’s total. Her total of 160 runs are better than Aaron Finch’s T-20I world record of 156, while she was just three sixes away from beating Chris Gayle’s enormous 175 that he posted for Bangalore in the 2013 IPL.