Wednesday, 1 January 2014

Breaking Afridi’s record, New Zealand’s Corey Anderson hits fastest ever century in ODI

Queenstown/New Delhi: Giving New Year gift to his country, New Zealand batsman Corey Anderson set a new world record by hitting fastest ever century in one-day International cricket format, making a ton off 36 balls against the West Indies in Queenstown.

Anderson broke the previous record set by Pakistani all-rounder Shahid Afridi who hit century on 37 balls against Sri Lanka at Nairobi in 1996.

The young New Zealand all-rounder hit 12 sixes and 4 fours in his 100 runs.

Anderson was unbeaten on 131 runs off 47 balls with 14 sixes and half a dozen fours.

The 23-year-old left hander batsman has played 6 ODIs so far for the Kiwi team. West Indies lead the five match series by 1-0.

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