48-ball mayhem! Gurbaz rewrites history with ton vs India

Rahmanullah Gurbaz rewrote the grounds books with a breathtaking 48-ball period against India successful the rain-shortened archetypal ODI astatine Dharamsala. The 100 was the fastest ever by an Afghanistan batter successful ODI cricket, surpassing each erstwhile Afghan records.

It was besides the quickest period of Gurbaz's ODI career, his ninth wide successful the format, and the fastest ODI 100 ever recorded successful an India-Afghanistan encounter.Gurbaz yet departed for a sensational 102 disconnected 51 balls, an innings packed with powerfulness and aggression. He struck 8 fours and 8 sixes earlier Nitish Kumar Reddy ended his singular enactment astatine the crease.

The right-hander had already made headlines earlier successful the innings erstwhile helium raced to a half-century successful conscionable 25 balls. That effort became the second-fastest ODI 50 by an Afghanistan batter, down lone Mohammad Nabi's 24-ball 50 against Sri Lanka successful Lahore successful 2023. Mujeeb Ur Rahman's 26-ball 50 against Pakistan successful Colombo completes the apical three.Best conversion complaint from 50s to 100s successful ODIs56.25 - Rahmanullah Gurbaz (9 hundreds)43.48 - Calum MacLeod (10 hundreds)42.86 - Daryl Mitchell (9 hundreds)41.82 - Quinton de Kock (23 hundreds)41.22 - Virat Kohli (54 hundreds)(min. 7 hundreds)Fastest ODI fifties for Afghanistan (by balls faced):24 balls - Mohammad Nabi vs Sri Lanka, Lahore, 202325 balls - Rahmanullah Gurbaz vs India, Dharamsala, 202626 balls - Mujeeb Ur Rahman vs Pakistan, Colombo, 2023Gurbaz's fireworks besides helped Afghanistan registry lone their 2nd period concern against India successful ODI cricket. The erstwhile three-figure basal came during the 2023 ODI World Cup successful Delhi, erstwhile Azmatullah Omarzai and Hashmatullah Shahidi added 121 runs.

His stunning innings came successful a lucifer that had already seen India manus ODI debuts to left-arm spin-bowling all-rounder Harsh Dubey and accelerated bowler Gurnoor Brar. With rainfall reducing the contention to 25 overs per side, Gurbaz made afloat usage of the shortened format, taking the onslaught to the Indian bowlers from the outset and producing 1 of the astir destructive innings by an Afghanistan batter against India.