Indian domestic tournament Vijay Hazare Trophy has started with a bang. Many players have performed amazingly on the very first day of the tournament. In the match played between the teams of Arunachal Pradesh and Punjab in Ahmedabad, a record breaking innings was seen from a batsman. This player took the record of the Indian batsman who scored the fastest century in the list. Earlier this record was in the name of former Team India player Yusuf Pathan.
Punjab's Anmolpreet Singh scored the fastest List A century by an Indian batsman in the match played against Arunachal Pradesh. Anmolpreet completed his century in just 35 balls and created history. Anmolpreet Singh remained unbeaten in this match after scoring 115 runs on 45 balls. During this period, 12 fours and 9 sixes were seen from his bat. During this innings, he scored runs at a strike rate of 255.56 and led his team to victory in a one-sided manner.
Before Anmolpreet, Yusuf Pathan had scored the fastest century for India in List A cricket. He achieved this feat in 40 balls while playing for Baroda against Maharashtra in the 2009-10 Vijay Hazare Trophy. At the same time, now Anmolpreet Singh has become the third batsman in the world to score the fastest century in List A cricket. Ahead of him are only Australia's Jake Fraser-McGurk and South Africa's AB de Villiers. Jake Fraser-McGurk has achieved this feat in 29 balls. At the same time, De Villiers had scored a century in 31 balls against West Indies in 2015.
In this match played between the two teams, Punjab team won the toss and decided to bowl first, which proved to be completely correct. Batting first, Arunachal Pradesh team could play only 48.4 overs and were all out after scoring 164 runs. At the same time, Punjab achieved this target in just 12.3 overs. During this period, Anmolpreet Singh was the hero of his team's victory. Now Punjab's next match will be against Nagaland on 23 December.
