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| Aderson greeted on his fastest hundred by his fellow players (Photo AFP) |
Qeenstown : New Zealand all rounder Corey Anderson breaks Pakistani all rounder Shahid Afridi's record of scoring fastest hundred in 36 balls.
The fastest record breaker knock was achieved by him against the West Indies, when asked whether the fastest record was in his mind, "No, not really, I just thought it was a pretty quick hundred, I didn't realize that it was the fastest," he replied.
Corey Anderson was at 95 in 35 balls when he hit a massive six on the 36th ball to share his record with Shahid Afridi, he remained not out on 131 in 47 balls by hitting 14 sixes to gave his team a crushing victory over West Indies in third one day.
The third one day was reduced to 21 overs, West Indies won the toss and choose to bat first, Newzealand batting first scored record 283/4 with avg of 13.47 runs per over.
West Indies scored 124/5 in 21 overs.
When asked Anderson, how Afridi will react over the news of his record breaking, Anderson replied that, " He (Afridi) will try to break it again".
Special thing about the record is that it is a gift to New Zealand cricket fans on the 'New year's eve'
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