South Africa’s Faf du Plessis scores his maiden T20 International century against West Indies in the second T20I at Johannesburg. With this, he narrowly missed out on the record of scoring the fastest T20I century by just 1 ball. Du Plessis took 46 balls to reach the three figure mark whereas his countryman and the world record holder Richard Levi reached his century off just 45 balls.
Du Plessis’ 56 balls 119 which included 11 fours and 5 sixes propelled South Africa to 231/7 in 20 overs. Here is the list of fastest hundreds scored in T20 Internationals.
|
S. No |
Batsman |
Country |
Balls |
Score |
Opposition |
|
1 |
Richard Levi |
South Africa |
45 |
117* |
New Zealand |
|
2 |
Faf du Plessis |
South Africa |
46 |
115 |
West Indies |
|
3 |
Aaron Finch |
Australia |
47 |
146 |
England |
|
4 |
Brendon McCullum |
New Zealand |
51 |
123 |
Bangladesh |
|
5 |
Chris Gayle |
West Indies |
50 |
117 |
South Africa |
|
6 |
Brendon McCullum |
New Zealand |
50 |
116* |
Australia |
|
7 |
Tillakaratne Dilshan |
Sri Lanka |
55 |
104* |
Australia |
|
8 |
Richard Berrington |
Scotland |
57 |
100 |
Bangladesh |
|
9 |
Ahmed Shehzad |
Pakistan |
58 |
111 |
Bangladesh |
|
10 |
Suresh Raina |
India |
59 |
101 |
South Africa |
* Balls column should be considered as the number of deliveries taken to reach 100