AB de Villiers hit a century off 31 balls

South Africa batsman AB de Villiers hit a century off 31 balls to record the fastest ever one-day international ton. 

Here are the list of records created during the South Afriacn innings against West Indies in the second ODI at Johannesburg.

1 - First time when the Top Three batsmen scoring a hundred in ODIs.

16 - Number of sixes scored by AB de Villiers in an innings. He equals Rohit Sharma’s record of 16 sixes against Australia at Bangalore.

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16 - Number of balls in which AB de Villiers scored the fastest fifty in ODI cricket. He surpassed Sanath Jayasuriya’s record of 50 off 17 balls.

31 - Number of balls AB de Villiers took to score the fastest hundred in ODI cricket. He surpassed Corey Anderson’s record of 100 off 36 balls.

40 - Number of minutes taken by AB de Villiers to score his hundred. 

102 - Number of innings took by Hashim Amla to score 18 ODI hundreds. He broke Virat Kohli’s record of 119 innings to achieve the feat.

127 - Rilee Rossouw’s highest ODI score. His previous best was 51 against Australia at Sydney in 2014.

149 - AB de Villiers’ highest ODI score. His previous best was 146 against West Indies at St. George's in 2007.

153*- Hashim Amla’s highest ODI score. His previous best was 150 against England at Southampton in 2012.

339 - Strike-Rate of AB de Villiers. The highest strike rate by a batsman with a benchmark of 100 runs.

438 - Highest runs conceded by West Indies in an ODI. The previous worst performance by the West Indian bowlers was 418 against India at Nagpur.


438/2 - Second highest total scored by a team in an ODI. Only Sri Lanka (443-5 vs Netherlands) has scored more than them.

Fastest ODI centuries
1. AB de Villiers (South Africa) - 31 balls against West Indies in Johannesburg on 18 January, 2015.
2. Corey Anderson (New Zealand) - 36 balls against West Indies in Queenstown on 1 January, 2014.
3. Shahid Afridi (Pakistan) - 37 balls against Sri Lanka in Nairobi on 4 October, 1996.
4. Mark Boucher (South Africa) - 44 balls against Zimbabwe in Potchefstroom on 20 September, 2006.
5. Brian Lara (West Indies) - 45 balls against Bangladesh in Dhaka on 9 October, 1999. Source: http://livebarabanki.com