AB
De Villiers fastest odi century: The South African skipper AB De
Villiers has created history by scoring a fastest century in one day
international cricket here in Johannesburg, against west indies in the
2nd ODI of the ongoing series.
The
2nd ODI between South Africa vs West Indies is going on right now at at
New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg, South Africa. earlier West Indies won the toss and chose to field.
South
African openers HM Amla and RR Rossouw punished the West Indies bowlers
and both the openers made centuries. [HM Amla scored 153 and RR Rossouw
scored 128] but West Indies problem didn't end
there, in fact the really problem began when the Proteas’ captain AB De
Villiers joined the party.
AB De Villiers
brutal attack on the West Indies bowlers, got him to his fifty in just
16 Balls, 19 minutes , set the world record of fatset half century by
breaking the previous record held by Sri Lankan batsman Sanath
Jayasuriya, who scored 50 of 17 balls against Pakistan in 1996.
He
needed a further 15 balls to break Corey Anderson’s year-old fastest
ODI century record and any West Indian hopes that De Villiers would
subsequently relax were soon dismissed as he and Hashim Amla continued
to pepper the New Wanderers Stadium boundary.
AB
de Villiers set a new world record by getting his hundred in just 31
Balls and broke the previous record held by New Zealand batsman Corey
Anderson who scored a 36-ball hundred against West Indies in Queenstown
in 2014.
He
came in to bat in the 39th over in this game. It took only 40 Minutes
for De Villiers to get to his hundred. He smashed 16 sixes, equaling the
world record for the most sixes in an ODI innings, by Rohit Sharma
during his innings of 209 against Australia in 2013.
The
wicketkeeper-batsman could not score another to make the record his
own, however, when he went for another huge hit off Andre Russell and
was caught at deep extra cover with two balls left having scored 149
from 44 balls.
The
Proteas ended their innings on 439 for two, four runs shy of the
highest ever ODI score by a team - set by Sri Lanka in 2006 against the
Netherlands.
Top 5 Fastest ODI centuries
31 balls AB de Villiers v West Indies, 2015
36 Corey Anderson v West Indies, 2014
37 Shahid Afridi v Sri Lanka, 1996
44 Mark Boucher v Zimbabwe, 2006
45 Brian Lara v Bangladesh, 2006
It is one of the greatest knock by one of the most talented modern day batsman.
Congratulations to AB De Villiers for his fastest ODI century
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