Watch: South Australia’s Jake Fraser-McGurk hit a hundred in only 29 balls, the fastest ever in senior professional cricket, during the 2023 Marsh Cup game against Tasmania.
The 21-year-old broke a number of records during his whirlwind knock of 125 in 38 balls, with his innings containing 10 fours and 13 sixes at a strike rate of 329. The youngster took 18 balls for his fifty – a competition record – and needed 11 deliveries more for his second fifty. Chasing a would-be world reccord 436, Fraser-McGurk gave his side a lightning start. By the time he was dismissed for 125 off 38 balls, he had taken his side to 172-1 in the 12th over.
Fraser-McGurk surpassed AB de Villiers, who made a ton in 31 balls in a 2015 ODI for South Africa against West Indies, to become the quickest to a List A hundred. He also has the record of making the fastest hundred in all formats at the top level. Before today, the record belonged to Chris Gayle, who had taken 30 balls to the landmark, during an Indian Premier League game for Royal Challengers Bangalore against Pune in 2013.
The Australian also smashed 32 runs in the third over of the mammoth run chase of 436, hitting Sam Rainbird for four sixes and two fours. He also smashed six successive boundaries, which included five consecutive sixes and one four, in his innings, and brought up his hundred on the last ball of the ninth over.
South Australia, however, came up short in the clash, losing the game by 37 runs.
Watch: Jake Fraser-McGurk here:
A century in 60 seconds!
All 29 balls it took Jake Fraser-McGurk to reach his hundred today #MarshCup pic.twitter.com/tzpFtpr0ww
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