Delhi wicket-keeper batsman Rishabh Pant, abruptly
sacked from captaincy a week ago, gave another example of his rare
talent by blasting a record 32- ball hundred in a North Zone match
against Himachal Pradesh in New Delhi Sunday Jan 14,2018
Rishabh Pant pummelled
the opposition attack with the fastest century by an Indian to fire his
team to a 10-wicket win in the Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 Trophy.
Rishabh Pant
remained unbeaten on 116 (38 balls 4x8 and 6x12) as Delhi raced to the 145-run target in 11.4
overs.
Gautam Gambhir was left a mere spectator at
the other end with 30 off 33 balls. His brutal innings was also the
second fastest hundred in T20s, only behind Chris Gayle, who hammered
100 off 30 balls against Pune Warriors in the 2013 Indian Premier
League.
The southpaw also surpassed Rohit Sharma, who
hit a 35- ball hundred against Sri Lanka in T20 International at Indore
last month. In 2016, Pant had smashed India’s fastest first- class
hundred off 48 balls. Pant’s performance today left a handful of
spectators at the Ferozshah Kotla awestruck, including Yuvraj Singh, who
witnessed a special knock by another left-hander before taking the
field for Punjab. “Just witnessed some outstanding hitting by
@RishabPant777 scintillating ton,” tweeted Yuvraj.
For
Delhi, it was their third win in four matches with their last league
match to be played against Services on Tuesday. Pant has been in ominous
touch in the zonal event and had hammered 51 off 33 balls in the
previous match against Jammu and Kashmir.
In
the afternoon, Jammu and Kashmir stunned Punjab by 23 runs after
posting a competitive 164 for three. Punjab could only manage 141 in
response with Manan Vohra scoring 53. Yuvraj Singh made runs four off
eight balls.
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