Boom Boom Afridi

Shahid Afridi smashed the second-fastest one-day century off 45 deliveries with nine sixes and ten boundaries in brilliant 102 off 46 balls.

Shahid Afridi smashed the second-fastest one-day century off 45 deliveries with nine sixes and ten boundaries in brilliant 102 off 46 balls.

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Afridi, who holds the world record for the fastest one-day hundred off 37 balls against Sri Lanka in 1996, equalled the second-best effort of 45 deliveries by West Indian Brian Lara against Bangladesh in Dhaka in 1999.

The 25-year-old missed breaking his own world record of 11 sixes in a one-day innings he shares with Sanath Jayasuriya of Sri Lanka.