SK Flashback: When AB de Villiers smashed the fastest century of all-time

#4 The demolition job begins

AB de Villiers gave himself the license to line up every delivery

With nine wickets in hand and only 69 balls remaining in the innings, de Villiers walked into the middle. The very first delivery that he faced was sent screaming to the straight boundary. He made his intentions pretty clear in the next over.

When Andre Russell and his slippery pace was brought back for the end overs, the belligerent right-hander plundered two fours as well as two sixes off four consecutive deliveries.

AB had raced to 28 from his first 8 balls. The carnage only escalated as Holder brought himself on and repeatedly wandered into dangerous territory – right into de Villiers’ arc on the leg-stump. Targeting the shorter boundary beyond backward square leg, he raced off to 45.

Requiring another maximum to acquire the record for the fastest ODI fifty, the South African dispatched a length ball into the stands and sent the stadium into delirium.