{"id":6275,"date":"2020-10-10T08:39:18","date_gmt":"2020-10-10T08:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/?p=6275"},"modified":"2020-10-10T08:39:18","modified_gmt":"2020-10-10T08:39:18","slug":"khushdil-shah-smashes-fastest-century-by-a-pakistani-in-t20-cricket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/2020\/10\/10\/khushdil-shah-smashes-fastest-century-by-a-pakistani-in-t20-cricket\/","title":{"rendered":"Khushdil Shah smashes fastest century by a Pakistani in T20 cricket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Southern Punjab\u2019s Khushdil Shah got himself into record books on Friday night by smashing the fastest T20 century by a Pakistani batsman.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old batsman, playing for Southern Punjab in the National T20 Cup, reached the three-figure score in just 35 balls \u2013 the fastest by a Pakistani and jointly 5th fastest T20 century by any batsman in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Surpassing Ahmad Shahzad who previously held the record of the fastest T20 century by a Pakistani, Shah smashed nine sixes and hit eight fours on way to his century to turn the tables for his side which was once struggling with 43-4.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><b><i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.geo.tv\/latest\/312375-confident-of-a-comeback-shahid-anwar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more: National T20 Cup: Central Punjab coach says tournament not over for struggling side<\/a><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Ahmad had scored his hundred in 40 balls during the Bangladesh Premier League game in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Khushdil&#8217;s 35-ball hundred is also the 5th fastest, jointly, by any batsman in the world. He follows Chris Gayle (30), Rishab Pant (32) Wihan Lubbe (33), and Andrew Symonds (34).<\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s Rohit Sharma and South Africa\u2019s David Miller both scored centuries in 35 balls each. Both of them scored centuries in International T20s.<\/p>\n<p>Shah\u2019s innings ended the next ball after completing his hundred.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southern Punjab\u2019s Khushdil Shah got himself into record books on Friday night by smashing the fastest T20 century by a Pakistani batsman. The 25-year-old batsman, playing for Southern Punjab in the National T20 Cup, reached the three-figure score in just 35 balls \u2013 the fastest by a Pakistani and jointly 5th fastest T20 century by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6276,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6275","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6277,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6275\/revisions\/6277"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}