Batsmen with Fastest 100 in CPL
India’s most loved sports had to face a pause due to the onset of a most horrifying pandemic. Many international country cricket boards had to shut off cricket until providing any further notice. However, things started to get better, and the world started to open a bit, sports opened too and so did cricket. The first country to begin an international cricket series was England where the West Indies toured England later this year.
With all the green flags, one of the most loved franchise-based tournaments the Caribbean Premier League is all set to commence form 18th August. CPL has given us some tremendous talents to watch out for over the years and we have witnessed some amazing performances from players all around the world in CPL.
As CPL is a shorter format tournament, one of the interesting part to watch this league are power hitters of the game. With their ability to smash every ball to the boundary or out of the park, there have been players who have outshined and brought out the best in them, which helped them to create records after records. One such record which is the most talked about is the fastest centuries.
Players with Fastest 100 in CPL
Here we take you to a down memory lane and get to you the top 5 players who whacked the fastest hundreds ever in the history of the Caribbean Premier League.
1) Andre Russell- Fastest 100: 40 balls
The West Indies legend, Andre Russell managed to the impossible as he led the Jamaica Tallawahs to a 4-wicket victory over the former Caribbean Premier League champions the Trinbago Knight Riders at the Queen’s Park Oval at the Port of Spain in 2018. It was Russell’s debut match as a skipper, when he blasted his route to a 40-ball century prior to having taken a hat-trick at the back end of the Knight Riders’ innings. It was all over for the Jamaica Tallawahs as half of their team was bundled up at 41 for 5 in reply to Trinbago Knight Riders CPL all-time greatest record score of 223/6 in the first innings, but that’s when entered Russell with his absolutely stunning form.
Russell was seemingly unstoppable leaving no bowlers to spare although, favoring the leg-side but also smashing off the spinners and the fast bowlers equally down the ground Russell was a force of energy that helped the Tallawahs get in the fighting zone. His century came up right at the 40th ball with a record-breaking 12th sixers. His final score on the scoreboard read 121 not out from 49 balls with six fours to go with those 13 maximums which makes Russell the first player in our top 5 players to hit the fastest century in the CPL history.
2) Andre Russell- Fastest 100: 44 balls
Fastest 100 in CPL: Russell is a synonym to “records”. He is considered to be one of the most entertaining and impactful cricketers in the modern Twenty20 cricket leagues. He has the finest ability to hit every ball out of the boundary which is equal to some of the greatest hardest hitters the game has ever got. Yet again he managed to score the fastest century while breaking his own record. Russell’s first-century knock included 11 sixes and 3 boundaries with a phenomenal strike rate of 227.27 vs the Trinbago Riders in 2016 held at Basseterre.
3) Shimron Hetmyer- Fastest 100: 49 balls
When Shimron Hetmyer smashed his way to reach the century in CPL, he became the youngest centurion in the league history in 2018 as he led the Guyana Amazon Warriors to a huge 71-run win over Jamaica Tallawahs in Florida. While it was Hetmyer’s maiden century, courtesy to that ton, Guyana managed to put up a challenging score of 209 runs while 7 for loss after they opted to bat first. Hetmyer’s knock included a 100 runs in just 49 balls which included 11 boundaries and 5 sixes with a strike rate of 204.08.
4) MN Samuels- Fastest 100: 53 balls
Fastest 100 in CPL: West Indies middle-order batsman Marlon Samuels smashed a record-breaking century making him the fourth-best to reach the top 5 players for getting the fastest century mark. Although his team couldn’t make it to the victory point against the Guyana Amazon Warriors Samuels’ 106 not out of 52 deliveries was the highlight of the match. Samuels dominated the game 106 not out knock which featured 8 sixes and 10 boundaries with a strike rate of 203.84.
5) K Pollard- Fastest 100: 54 balls
This was Kieron Pollard’s maiden Twenty20 century at St Lucia Stars when the Starts register a 38-run victory over Barbados Tridents. This was the one of the fastest ton in the history of the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) behind Andre Russell’s match-winning 121* in the same Jamaica Tallawahs-Knight Riders clash.
Pollard’s side, St. Lucia Stars managed to score 226-6 against the Barbados Tridents which was also a record highest total in CPL history. However, Pollard’s stunning century helped the 15-game losing streak team to finally register their first win in the Caribbean Premier League. Kieron Pollard smashed 104 runs from 54 balls with a strike rate of 192.59 which included 6 boundaries and 8 sixes.
