Stats and records broken by Jos Buttler with his fantastic hundred v Pakistan

Stats and records broken by Jos Buttler with his fantastic hundred v Pakistan: Jos Buttler smashed an unbeaten 116 against Pakistan in final the ODI game as he helped his side to score a mammoth 355/5 in 50 overs. His carnage in last 10 overs helped his side to score 129 runs, out of which 79 coming in last 5 overs itself. Here we look at the all possible stats recorded during his innings.

Statistical Highlights of Jos Buttler’s knock:

46 – Number of balls Jos Buttler took to complete his century. This is the fastest ODI ton for England.

1 – Jos Buttler’s century is the fastest ODI ton against Pakistan and also the fastest in UAE.

70 – Buttler has completed all his 3 ODI centuries inside 70 balls. He is now only the 5th batsman to complete 3 or more ODI centuries inside 70 balls.

2 – ODI centuries completed by Jos Buttler after coming in to bat after the 25th over of the innings. Only AB de Villiers (five centuries) and Virat Kohli (two centuries) have scored more than 1 century after coming in, to bat after the 25th over of the innings.

4 – Buttler’s century is only the 4th century in ODI history scored after coming in to bat after the 30th over of the innings. AB de Villiers did it on 2 different occasions while Glenn Maxwell has done it once.

223.07 – Jos Buttler’s strike rate in this innings. This is the highest strike rate for an England batsman in a ODI innings with a minimum of 50 runs. Interestingly, this is only the 50-plus innings of 200-plus strike rate by an England batsman.

8 – Number of sixes hit by Jos Buttler in this innings. These are the most number of sixes hit by an England batsman in an ODI innings. Previous highest was 7 sixes by Andrew Flintoff against West Indies at Lord’s in 2004.

3 – Jos Buttler is now only the 14th player to score 3 or more ODI tons as wicket keeper batsman. Only Alex Stewart from England has 3 or more centuries as wicket keeper batsman.