Watch: 19-year-old Afghan batsman creates history in 29 balls, breaks Chris Gayle’s record

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Arif Sangar 29 Balls Century Record: Afghanistan’s 19 year old batsman Arif Sangar Has created panic with his stormy batting. Arif scored a blistering century in just 29 balls in a T10 match of the European Cricket Series. Arif hit a total of 2 fours and 17 sixes in his innings of 118 runs in 35 balls.

In the European Cricket Series (ECS) T10 League being played in Switzerland on August 9, Arif Sangar, playing for Pakhtun Zalmi against Power CC, played at a strike rate of 337.14 with the help of 17 sixes and 2 fours. Played a stormy inning of 118 runs.

During this, Arif created a new history by scoring a century in only 29 balls. During this, Arif scored 29 runs in one over. Arif, playing on a score of 97, completed his century by hitting a six. Playing first with the help of Arif’s strong batting, his team Pakhtun Zalmi scored a mammoth score of 185 runs losing 3 wickets in 10 overs. In response, Power CC’s team got all out for 103 runs.

Arif Sangar goes ballistic, blazing an astonishing 1️⃣1️⃣8️⃣ runs off a mere 35 balls yesterday. He is now the leading run scorer in the tournament. #EuropeanCricket #EuropeanCricketSeries #strongertogether pic.twitter.com/TZ7MF55Dvs

— European Cricket (@EuropeanCricket) August 10, 2023

Arif Sangar played two big innings in a single day. Just two hours before Arif hit a century in 29 balls, in another T10 match of the same league, he played a stormy 85 runs in 30 balls with the help of 11 sixes and 2 fours. With the help of this innings of Arif, his team Pakhtun Zalmi achieved the target of 161 runs from Kosonai CC team by losing 4 wickets in 9.3 overs.

With this, Afghanistan-born Arif has become the highest run-scorer in the ECS Switzerland T10 League. He has so far scored 534 runs in 10 matches with the help of 4 half-centuries and a century.

Let us tell you that the record of scoring the fastest century in T20 cricket is in the name of Chris Gayle, who scored a century in just 30 balls against Pune Warriors while playing for Royal Challengers Bangalore in 2013 IPL. Gayle hit 17 sixes and 2 fours in his stormy century innings. Even though Arif Sangar completed the century in fewer balls than Gayle, but the record of the fastest century in T20 is still in the name of Gayle, because Arif has done this feat in T10 cricket.

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