2016 New Zealand Vs Australia Second Test @ at Hagley Oval,Christ Church February 20 - 24,2016 - Brendon McCullum hits fastest Test century off 54 balls Saturday February 20,2018

 

NZ Vs Australia Second Test @Day One Saturday February 20,2016

Australia won the toss and chose to field

Playing his 101st and final Test, Brendon McCullum hits fastest Test century off 54 balls

New Zealand scored 370/10 in 65.4 Overs
Fall of Wickets(NZ)
Martin Guptill                18(22 Balls 4x3)
Tom Latham                  04(40 Balls)
Henry Nichols                07(12 Balls 4x1)
Kane Williamson             07(69 Balls)
Brendon Mc Cullum       145(79 Balls 4x21 and 6x6)-12th Test Century

Corey Anderson              72(66 Balls 4x8 and 6x4) - 04th Test Fifty

Tim Southee                   05(6 Balls)
Matt Henry                     21(12 Balls 4x1 and 6x1)
Neil Wagner                    10(23 Balls 4x1 and 6x1)
B J Watling                      58(57 Balls 4x9)-11th Test Fifty

Trent Boult                      14*(10 Balls 4x2)
Wicket Takers(Australia)
Nathan Lyon                3/61(10 Overs)
Jackson Bird                2/66(14.4 Overs)
James Pattinson            2/81(15 Overs)
Josh Hazzlewood           2/98(18 Overs)
Australia 57/1 in 20 Overs
Fall of Wickets(Australia)
David Warner               12(22 Balls 4x2)
Joe Burns                     27*
Usman Khawaja             18*


Playing his 101st and last Test Match,New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum set a new record for the fastest Test century after lunch on the first day of the second Test against Australia on Saturday when he clouted exactly 100 runs in 54 balls

 

FASTEST-EVER TEST CENTURIES

1. Brendon McCullum (New Zealand) 

100 from 54 balls vs Australia - 2015-16

2. Misbah-ul-Haq (Pakistan) 

100 from 56 balls vs Australia - 1985-86

3. Adam Gilchrist (Australia) 

100 from 56 balls vs England - 2006-07

4. Jack Gregory (Australia)

100 from 67 balls vs South Africa - 1921-22

5. Shivnarine Chanderpaul (Australia) 

100 from 69 balls vs Australia - 2002-03

Brendon McCullum, who hit 16 fours and four sixes to notch his 12th Test century, needed two fewer balls than the 56 that West Indies' Viv Richards needed against England in Antigua in 1986 and Pakistan's Misbah-ul-Haq took against Australia in Abu Dhabi in 2014

New Zealand batsmen who have scored more centuries than McCullum's 12. Martin Crowe made 17, and Ross Taylor and Kane Williamson 13 each. This was McCullum's 6th century as Captain

Brendon Mc Cullum finally got out for 145(79 Balls 4x21 and 6x6)

Cricketers Who Scored Century in their last Test Match

New Zealand's Rodney Redmond scored 107 in his only Test  Vs Pakistan in Auckland in 1972-73.
Jacques Kallis scored 115 against India in Johannesburg in 2013-14

Highest individual scores in last Test (NZ)

Player	Runs	Opposition	Ground	Start Date
Brendon McCullum	145	v Australia	Christchurch	20 Feb 2016
Rodney Redmond	107	v Pakistan	Auckland	16 Feb 1973
Luke Ronchi	88	v England	Leeds	29 May 2015
VJ Scott	84	v West Indies	Auckland	15 Feb 1952
GP Howarth	84	v West Indies	Kingston	4 May 1985