{"id":22146,"date":"2025-04-12T22:52:30","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T17:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=587345"},"modified":"2025-04-12T22:54:46","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T17:24:46","slug":"abhishek-sharma-slams-40-ball-century-becomes-sixth-fastest-centurion-in-ipl-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/abhishek-sharma-slams-40-ball-century-becomes-sixth-fastest-centurion-in-ipl-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Abhishek Sharma slams 40-ball century, becomes sixth-fastest centurion in IPL history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" data-start=\"201\" data-end=\"528\">Sunrisers Hyderabad\u2019s Abhishek Sharma added his name to an elite list on Saturday night as he stormed to a sensational 100 off just 40 balls against Punjab Kings at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium. The fiery left-hander\u2019s innings etched him into IPL history as the sixth-fastest century scorer in the tournament\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"530\" data-end=\"794\">Abhishek\u2019s knock came during SRH\u2019s steep chase of 246, a match situation that demanded aggressive intent from ball one. He delivered exactly that\u2014blasting 11 fours and 6 sixes\u2014before reaching his hundred in just 40 deliveries, sending the home crowd into a frenzy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"796\" data-end=\"893\">Here\u2019s where Abhishek now stands in the list of fastest hundreds in IPL history (by balls faced):<\/p>\n<ul data-start=\"895\" data-end=\"1203\">\n<li class=\"\" data-start=\"895\" data-end=\"944\">\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"897\" data-end=\"944\"><strong data-start=\"897\" data-end=\"909\">30 balls<\/strong> \u2013 Chris Gayle (RCB) vs PWI, 2013<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"\" data-start=\"945\" data-end=\"993\">\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"947\" data-end=\"993\"><strong data-start=\"947\" data-end=\"959\">37 balls<\/strong> \u2013 Yusuf Pathan (RR) vs MI, 2010<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"\" data-start=\"994\" data-end=\"1045\">\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"996\" data-end=\"1045\"><strong data-start=\"996\" data-end=\"1008\">38 balls<\/strong> \u2013 David Miller (KXIP) vs RCB, 2013<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"\" data-start=\"1046\" data-end=\"1095\">\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1048\" data-end=\"1095\"><strong data-start=\"1048\" data-end=\"1060\">39 balls<\/strong> \u2013 Travis Head (SRH) vs RCB, 2024<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"\" data-start=\"1096\" data-end=\"1148\">\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1098\" data-end=\"1148\"><strong data-start=\"1098\" data-end=\"1110\">39 balls<\/strong> \u2013 Priyansh Arya (PBKS) vs CSK, 2025<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"\" data-start=\"1149\" data-end=\"1203\">\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1151\" data-end=\"1203\"><strong data-start=\"1151\" data-end=\"1163\">40 balls<\/strong> \u2013 Abhishek Sharma (SRH) vs PBKS, 2025<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1205\" data-end=\"1408\">Not only did Abhishek\u2019s knock keep SRH in the chase, it also marked his maiden IPL hundred\u2014one that will be remembered not just for its pace, but for the timing and pressure under which it was delivered.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1410\" data-end=\"1574\">With this stunning performance, Abhishek joins a list of T20 legends, underlining his evolution from a promising youngster to one of IPL 2025\u2019s most feared openers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunrisers Hyderabad\u2019s Abhishek Sharma added his name to an elite list on Saturday night as he stormed to a sensational\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":42429,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ipl"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}