Fastest centuries in ODI

Overview:-

AB de Villiers:-

• South African batsman AB de Villiers scored the fastest century in ODI history against West Indies at Johannesburg.
• He scored the fastest ODI fifty off just 16 balls, and then went on to smash the fastest century in 31 balls during the South African innings.

Corey Anderson:-

• In the game in which Jesse Ryder entered the record books by scoring a 46-ball century, his teammate Corey Anderson went one better and broke a record that had stood for 14 years, by slamming a 36-ball century.
• Corey Anderson hit sixes with impunity to bring up his century in 36 balls, thereby breaking the record for the fastest hundred in ODIs.
• He went on to score 132 off 47 balls in an innings that spanned 51 minutes. He hit only 6 fours but made up for that by clearing the ropes 14 times.

Shahid Afridi:-

• Afridi had set the world on fire by slamming the fastest ODI hundred in just 37 balls against Sri Lanka, a record which is still looking for a conqueror.