blast from the past.... Afridi fastest hundred.

coOoLBreeze · Jun 24th, 2009, 08:41 PM

This guy was born to do magic.. First international innings and 100 of 37 balls.

koozager · Jun 24th, 2009, 10:33 PM

TY Cooolbreeze. Great video.

Arleitter · Jul 3rd, 2009, 07:04 AM

This is the first time I watched his feast........ Thanks Cool Breeze

inzi_rocks · Jul 3rd, 2009, 08:02 AM

Awesome

GoldenAsif · Jul 3rd, 2009, 09:27 AM

And it was this game

http://www.cricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/66057.html

koozager · Jul 5th, 2009, 12:56 AM

Another interesting fact to provide some context to this innings is that the preceding two games between Pakistan and Srilanka, Jayasuriya had broken the records for fastest hundred, fastest fifty, most sixes in an ODI innings. This was during the Singer cup in Singapore immediately following the 96 cup in India-Pakistan-Srilanka. (which Pakistan won) Afridi pulled two of these records back under the Pakistan column in this game. The third for fastest 50 stays with Jayasuria to this day.

1st Match: Pakistan v Sri Lanka at Singapore, Apr 2, 1996 | Cricket Scorecard | Cricinfo.com
Final: Pakistan v Sri Lanka at Singapore, Apr 7, 1996 | Cricket Scorecard | Cricinfo.com

I remember Amer sohail (who was the stand-in captain since Wasim dropped out of the WC QF) complained about the boundary being too close suggesting that was the reason Jayasuriya was able to break all the records.

This Kenyan tournament was also one of the few tournaments South Africa did win. In the final Afridi took all three wickets South Africa lost in the game, which remained the highest number of wickets he took in an ODI untill 2000, 4 years later. After this game Afridi has has scored 8 more hundreds for Pakistan, 3 in ODIs and 5 in Tests. Pakistan has won all but one of these games.

This game was not covered live in Pakistan & we had to bribe people to get the game on video a week or so later