Watch: Brendon McCullum’s record breaking 54-ball hundred

Test number 101 and the last match in which Brendon McCullum was walking out to bat for New Zealand. After falling for a duck in his 100th he would have wanted to make this one count and boy what better way than smashing a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious hundred and that to the fastest in Test cricket.

He walked out amidst a guard of honor by the Australian team and probably in a situation that suited a player like him. They were 32/3 at that time as the Aussie pacers ran in hard to run them over in Wellington fashion. McCullum walked out with his typical approach, going hard at it right from the go. He swung his willow on the second off James Pattinson and then the six over Mitchell Marsh’s head, set the tone for the rest of the innings.

McCullum with a dash of luck being caught off a no-ball on 39 played a stroke-filled, flawless knock there on and got to his 12th Test ton in just 54 balls which is now the record for the fastest century in Test cricket bettering Misbah-ul-Haq’s feat by a couple of deliveries.

Baz got to his century in this fashion – 0, 4, 0, 1, 6, 0, 4, 4, 6, 1, 2, 0, 4, 0, 4, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 4, 1, 0, 6, 4, 0, 0, 4, 4, 4, 0, 0, 2, 0, 4, 4, 2, 4, 0, 0, 6, 4, 4, 4

He did not stop there and kept going until Pattinson finally had the better of him on the individual score of 145 in the 46th over of the match. He walked in the 20th with 30 odd runs on the board and left them at 253/5 though not well poised but in a comfortable position. Corey Anderson and BJ Watling did well thereafter to ensure they had something to bowl at.

In the end, they did manage a decent total of 370 and got the wicket of David Warner to jolt Australia early on.

Watch: Brendon McCullum’s record breaking 54-ball hundred:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2boxcdjDnpE

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