Bihar captain Sakibul Ghani scored the fastest List A century as an Indian, saving the record of AB de Villiers.

Ghani remained unbeaten after scoring 128 runs in 40 balls, in which he hit 10 fours and 12 sixes. He scored 112 runs in his innings only through boundaries. Bihar’s opening batsman Vaibhav Suryavanshi played a stormy innings of 190 runs in 84 balls in this match. Which is the fourth fastest century in Indian List A.

Fastest List A century by an Indian

32 balls: Sakibul Ghani (Bihar)

33 balls: Ishan Kishan (Jharkhand)

35 balls: Anmolpreet Singh (Punjab)

36 balls: Vaibhav Suryavanshi (Bihar)

40 balls: Yusuf Pathan (Baroda)

41 balls: Urvil Patel (Gujarat)

42 balls: Abhishek Sharma (Punjab)

Apart from these two, Ayush Loharuka played an inning of 116 runs in 56 balls, due to which Bihar scored 574 runs at the loss of 6 wickets in the stipulated 50 overs. Which is the highest team score in List A history. Earlier in the year 2022, against Arunachal Pradesh, Tamil Nadu had scored 506 runs at the loss of 2 wickets.

Let us tell you that he played an innings of 341 runs on his first class debut in the 2021-22 Ranji Trophy season and he became the first cricketer in the world to score a triple century on first class debut.

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