2018 Indian Premier League(IPL)Season 11 April 07- May 27,2018 - DD's Risabh Pant scores 128* Vs SRH,the first century by an Indian this season Thursday May 10,2018

Delhi Daredevils' power-hitter Rishabh Pant became the second youngest to score an IPL hundred and youngest to score 1000 runs in the 2018 IPL Season 11during DD Vs SRH at Feroz Shah Kotla on Thursday May 10,2018

The 20-year-old took just 56 balls to bring up his hundred. His unbeaten innings of 128 off 63 balls was studded with 15 fours and 7 towering sixes with 26 runs coming off Bhuvneshwar Kumar's last over that enabled the hosts to post a competititve score of 187/5 in 20 overs

Manish Pandey, who hammered a hundred for Royal Challengers Bangalore in 2009, aged 19 years and 253 days, remains the youngest IPL centurion till date

Sanju Samson is now the third youngest. The Rajasthan Royals batsman had scored a hundred for DD last year when he was 22 years and 151 days

Quinton de Kock (23 years and 122 days) and David Warner (23 years and 153 days) are fourth and fifth respectively in the list of youngest IPL centurions.

Rsiabh Pant's century was also the 50th hundred in the history of the IPL.

Incidentally, Pant's hundred is the first by an Indian this season as Chris Gayle (KXIP) and Shane Watson (CSK) are the only other centurions in IPL 2018.

In the process, Risabh Pant also overtook KL Rahul of Kings XI Punjab to take the Orange Cap.

Risabh Pant Slams Joint 5th Highest Individual Score in IPL History

Risabh Pant's 128*(63 Balls 4x15 and 6x7) is joint fifth in the list of highest individual scores in the Indian Premier League.

The highest being Chris Gayle's blitz for the Royal Challengers Bangalore, when he slammed an unbeaten 175 against the Pune Warriors in 2013.

Brendon McCullum's unbeaten 158 in the first ever IPL match in 2008 is in the second spot while AB de Villiers occupies the third and fourth spots with his efforts of 133* against Mumbai Indians in 2015 and 129* against Gujarat Lions in 2016.

Chris Gayle scored 128* against the Delhi Daredevils in 2012 and Pant has managed to equal the burly Jamaican, but took one ball more than Gayle to reach the mark.