Amazing Facts about Shahid Afridi's fastest ODI century , Did you Know this ?
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Amazing Facts about Shahid Afridi's fastest ODI century , Did you Know this ?
Shahid Afridi scored his fastest century ( 100 from 37 balls) with a bat which originally belonged to Sachin Tendulkar. Master Blaster gifted this bat to previous Pakistan pacer Waqar Younis, who thusly offered it to Afridi with the desire "it could demonstrate fortunate as it had a place with an awesome player".
Afridi said he had got a few offers to sell the bat however opposed them all due to the emotional connection with the bat. "Waqar gave me the bat in Nairobi where I made my debut for Pakistan. He told me Tendulkar had given him the bat and requesting that he make similar model bats from Sialkot," Afridi said. "Waqar revealed to me the bat had a place with an awesome player and it could demonstrate fortunate for me so I should utilize it,"
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He said. "That record still stands today and does right by me. I additionally got other great scores with this specific bat so it is exceptionally profitable for me and I have no goal to sell it off to anybody,"
Afridi hit 11 sixes and six boundaries with the bat and scored a 37-ball century against Sri Lanka which was the then fastest ODI century. The record, broken later by Corey Anderson (36 balls), now belongs to South Africa's AB de Villiers (31 balls)
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