New Delhi: Delhi wicketkeeper-batsman Rishabh Pant (116 n o, 38b, 8×4, 12×6), abruptly sacked from captaincy a week ago, gave another example of his rare talent by blasting a record 32-ball hundred in a North Zone match against Himachal Pradesh here, Sunday.
Pant pummeled the opposition attack with the fastest century by an Indian to fire his team to a 10-wicket win in the Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 Trophy. Pant’s knock helped Delhi race to the 145-run target in just 11.4 overs. Gautam Gambhir (30, 33b, 4×4) was left a mere spectator at the other end.
His brutal innings was also the second fastest hundred in T20s, only behind Chris Gayle, who hammered 100 off 30 balls against Pune Warriors in the 2013 IPL.
The southpaw also surpassed Rohit Sharma, who hit a 35-ball hundred against Sri Lanka in T20 International at Indore last month. In 2016, Pant had smashed India’s fastest first-class hundred off 48 balls.
Pant’s performance today left a handful of spectators at the Ferozshah Kotla awestruck, including Yuvraj Singh, who witnessed a special knock by another left-hander before taking the field for Punjab against Jammu & Kashmir.
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