Top five quickest T20 half-centuries by Virender Sehwag

3. 50 in 22 balls (74 from 38 balls – 10 fours, 3 sixes; Delhi v/s Chennai, Feroze Shah Kotla, 19 March 2010)

This game would be remembered for Matthew Hayden’s use of the much-anticipated Mongoose bat and his subsequent heroics, but the initial fireworks came off the Delhi opener’s blade.

Having relinquished captaincy duties, Sehwag played with gay abandon, right from the word go. He proceeded to play his full repertoire of Twenty20 shots- flicks, square-cuts, and powerful hits down the ground.

The highlight of his innings was an exquisite stroke off Muralitharan; he took the ball from in front of the stumps and guided it to the left of short third-man. He reached his half-century in just 22 deliveries, and by the end of Murali’s over, he had made 61 from 28.

Hayden and his Mongoose had the last laugh, though, with Chennai winning by five wickets.