cris gayle's 100 run in 30 ball in IPL 2013

In the early days of  Twenty20  cricket, back in 2004,  Australian  Andrew  Symonds  bludgeoned a hundred for the English county team Kent off just 34 balls. That record stood until IPL 2013, in whichChris Gayle's 175 not out for Royal Challengers Bangalore came off an incredible 30 balls. It was the fastest hundred in the history of top-level cricket and also beat Brendon McCullum's seemingly unbeatable Twenty20 high score of 158 not out. 200 by a single player in a Twenty20 match now looks achievable, but a century off 30 balls? That's purely astonishing.

This article was updated on 28 April 2013 to reflect that the previous record at number ten, Brendon McCullum's Twenty20 score of 158*, had fallen.