Hardik Pandya registers fastest fifty in ICC event finals

     Written by : SMTV24x7 | Mon, Jun 19, 2017, 06:35 PM

Hardik Pandya registers fastest fifty in ICC event finals

London June 19: AS we all knew that, Team India has lost the ICC Champions Trophy against the Pakistan, but everyone will remember the Hardik Pandya's knock, the way he batted has mesmerized all the fans even though the team was defeated.

Here he creates a record in ICC tournaments, The all-rounders came up with an attacking knock in the final while was always going downhill for India, reaching the milestone off 32 balls. He ended up with a knock of 76 runs off 43 balls before he was run out.

Pandya's knock just beat the effort of Australian wicketkeeper-batsman Adam Gilchrist, who had scored a half-century off 33 balls, also against Pakistan at the ICC World Cup final at Lord's in 1999.

Coincidentally, Mohammad Hafeez, who scored a 50 off 34 balls in the Pakistan first innings here earlier on Sunday held the record for the second-fastest 50 in a final, till he was relegated to the third position by Pandya.

India was pegged back from the first innings itself with Pakistan opener Fakhar Zaman scoring a fine century (114), and big contributions coming from Azhar Ali (59) and Mohammad Hafeez (57*) as they scored 338/4 in their knock.