On July 17, 2021, England all-rounder Liam Livingstone scored a 42-ball century on his way to 103. While that innings wasn’t enough for England to win the first T201 against Pakistan, they went on to win the next two to win the series.
Livingstone, who was named as the player of the series, scored England’s fastest T201 fifty and hundred in that innings, even though it came in a losing cause.
Liam Livingstone reached his fifty in just 17 balls and completed his hundred in just 42 deliveries. That makes it both the fastest fifty and fastest hundred by an England batsman in T20 internationals. He scored nine sixes in the innings, another record for an English batsman in T20Is, going past the previous record of seven held by Eoin Morgan (on four occasions), Ravi Bopara and Jason Roy. While Livingstone’s century is the seventh fastest in the history of T20Is, it is the third fastest (behind David Miller and Rohit Sharma, who both share the first place) T201 hundred in matches that were played between full-member cricketing nations.
When South Africa’s David Miller hit a T201 century (101 not out) against Bangladesh from just 35 balls, he shaved off 10 deliveries from the fastest T20 international hundred record. The record was previously held by his compatriot Richard Levi, who had scored a century in 45 balls against New Zealand in 2012.
Less than two months after Miller set his record, he was joined at the top by India’s Rohit Sharma. Opening the innings against Sri Lanka, Rohit finished with a 43-ball 118. While Miller’s knock allowed the Proteas to win the match against Bangladesh by 83 runs. Rohit’s ton paved the way for an 88-run victory.
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