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#1 Brendon McCullum- 54 balls
What is the best way to finish your career? A hundred, a double-hundred or the quickest hundred in Test cricket? A career that was synonymous with aggression, came to an end with what is statistically the most aggressive knock in Test cricket.
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Brendon McCullum walked to the crease in 2016 at Christchurch against Australia, in what was his last Test appearance.
After losing the toss on a bowling friendly surface, New Zealand were three down for 32 runs in 19 overs. Australia were all over the hosts when McCullum took his guard. The Kiwi skipper batted the way he is known for and rescued his team by producing a fine counter-attacking punch.
He 21 fours and six sixes in his blitzkrieg inning and tore apart a bowling artillery that consisted of Josh Hazlewood, James Pattinson, and Nathan Lyon. He reached his hundred off just 54 balls and that too in style. He hammered Pattinson for a four through the covers and soaked in the wild applause generated by the crowd in the stadium.
New Zealand eventually lost the Test, but McCullum inked his name in history the history books.
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