The T20 format was still fresh back in 2007 and the format entertained the audience with all the fours and the sixes smashed rapidly. The first T20 International match was played on 17 February, 2005 between New Zealand and Australia. The first T20 World Cup took place in 2007 and South Africa was the host.
On September 19, 2007, the match was against England and the young Yuvraj Singh with the bat the crease aiming to achieve something remarkable. Singh went on to score T20I’s fastest fifty. He played only 12 balls to bring up the half-century and he smashed Stuart Broad for six sixes in Durban. The knock was spectacular and the record is still unbroken.
A lot of Indian fans still thank Andrew Flintoff to be the perfect catalyst. The blitzkrieg 58 runs off 16 balls included three boundaries and seven over-boundaries. 36 runs came from Broad’s over and it just decimated the English pacer.
In 2019 Austria’s Mirza Ahsan smashed fifty off 13 balls against England.
