Chris Gayle a Jamaican cricketer hits the fastest century in cricket history. Chris Gayle who scored the fastest century in professional cricket did it off just 30 balls on Tuesday. The bowler from the Pune Warriors, who patrons accused of bowling poorely helped the Royal Challengers Bangalore won a hopelessly one-sided match. A double hundred in Twenty20 cricket achieved only a handful of times in 50-over matches was a real possibility but Gayle admitted he slowed down in the middle part of his inning.
He finished 175 not out off 66 balls having hit 17 sixes and 13 fours beating
the previous highest Twenty20 score of 158 by Brendon McCullum, also set at
Bangalore’s Chinnaswamy Stadium in the first-ever IPL match six years ago.
Gayle’s attack broke a series of other records. Essex all-rounder Graham Napier lost his record for the highest number of sixes in an innings as Gayle struck 17 and helped Royal Challengers Bangalore chalk up 21 altogether, another high.
Their total of 263 for five is also the highest yet in Twenty20 cricket and not so long ago would have virtually guaranteed victory in a 50-over match. Gayle, who last year became the first man to hit the first ball of a Test match for six, was brutal as Pune supplied plenty of deliveries which allowed him to swing freely and hit straight down the ground.
He was handed easy runs at the start of his innings by Ishwar Pandey, whose first over was smashed for 21.
There are few more intimidating sights than Gayle finding his range and the margin of error for bowlers was tiny. But the seamers were guilty of over-pitching too often and the spinners could not slow the scoring rate.
Gayle swiped 28 off Mitchell Marsh’s first over and 29 off Aaron Finch. Pity poor Ali Murtaza, a young left-arm spinner playing his first game in the IPL. He was asked to tie Gayle down. His first over cost 28.
Englishman Luke Wright used his experience to mix up his pace and survived the carnage with figures of one for 26 off his four overs, but it was an ultimately futile attempt at damage-limitation.
Gayle hit two sixes out of the vast ground and one, which brought up his hundred, struck the corrugated metal roof of the stadium bringing down a shower of rusty metal.
That shot made history beating the 34-ball Twenty20 hundred scored by Andrew Symonds for Kent in against Middlesex in 2004.
The quickest hundred in 50-over cricket is Shahid Afridi’s 37-ball innings for Pakistan against Sri Lanka in 1996 while Viv Richards holds the Test record for a 56-ball century against England on his home ground in Antigua in 1986.
It was all in sharp contrast to Gayle’s last innings when he batted 17.5 overs against Rajasthan Royals for an unbeaten 49 off 44 balls. After 44 balls on Tuesday he had 115.
After Gayle’s innings the match was going to be a non-event and Pune duly lost four wickets in the first six overs.
Gayle had enough energy left to take two wickets on the only over he bowled. He celebrating both wickets Gangnam-style and still managed to look cool.
Gayle’s attack broke a series of other records. Essex all-rounder Graham Napier lost his record for the highest number of sixes in an innings as Gayle struck 17 and helped Royal Challengers Bangalore chalk up 21 altogether, another high.
Their total of 263 for five is also the highest yet in Twenty20 cricket and not so long ago would have virtually guaranteed victory in a 50-over match. Gayle, who last year became the first man to hit the first ball of a Test match for six, was brutal as Pune supplied plenty of deliveries which allowed him to swing freely and hit straight down the ground.
He was handed easy runs at the start of his innings by Ishwar Pandey, whose first over was smashed for 21.
There are few more intimidating sights than Gayle finding his range and the margin of error for bowlers was tiny. But the seamers were guilty of over-pitching too often and the spinners could not slow the scoring rate.
Gayle swiped 28 off Mitchell Marsh’s first over and 29 off Aaron Finch. Pity poor Ali Murtaza, a young left-arm spinner playing his first game in the IPL. He was asked to tie Gayle down. His first over cost 28.
Englishman Luke Wright used his experience to mix up his pace and survived the carnage with figures of one for 26 off his four overs, but it was an ultimately futile attempt at damage-limitation.
Gayle hit two sixes out of the vast ground and one, which brought up his hundred, struck the corrugated metal roof of the stadium bringing down a shower of rusty metal.
That shot made history beating the 34-ball Twenty20 hundred scored by Andrew Symonds for Kent in against Middlesex in 2004.
The quickest hundred in 50-over cricket is Shahid Afridi’s 37-ball innings for Pakistan against Sri Lanka in 1996 while Viv Richards holds the Test record for a 56-ball century against England on his home ground in Antigua in 1986.
It was all in sharp contrast to Gayle’s last innings when he batted 17.5 overs against Rajasthan Royals for an unbeaten 49 off 44 balls. After 44 balls on Tuesday he had 115.
After Gayle’s innings the match was going to be a non-event and Pune duly lost four wickets in the first six overs.
Gayle had enough energy left to take two wickets on the only over he bowled. He celebrating both wickets Gangnam-style and still managed to look cool.
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