Fastest fifties in ODI

West Indies No. 9 batsman DJ Sammy scored his fifty off only 20 balls here is the list of fastest half centuries in One Day International history.

Balls, Batsmen, Team, Vs, At, ON
17, ST Jayasuriya, SL, Pak, Singapore, 07.04.1996
18, SP O’Donnell, Aus, SL, Sharjah, 02.05.1990
18, Shahid Afridi, Pak, SL, Nairobi, 04.10.1996
18, Shahid Afridi, Pak, Net, Colombo, 21.09.2002
19, MV Boucher, SAF, Ken, Cape Town, 22.10.2002
19, JM Kemp, SAF, ZIM, Durban, 27.02.2005
19, BB McCullum, NZ, Ban, Queenstown, 31.12.2007
19, Ross Taylor, NZ. Ire, Aberdeen, 01.07.2008
19, DJ Hussey, Aus, WI, St Kitts, 06.07.2008
20, Shahid Afridi, Pak, Ind, Kanpur, 15.04.2005
20, Shahid Afridi, Pak, SAF, Durban, 07.02.2007
20, BB McCullum, NZ, Can, St Lucia, 22.03.2007
20, DJ Sammy, WI, SAF, North Sound, 24.05.2010

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Some more stats of NZ-SL T20 International

*** New Zealand were dismissed all out 81 in this game providing the 23rd occasion of a team dismissed all out for a total less than 100 runs in T20I and second occasion for New Zealand. They have been all out for 99 against Pakistan at The Oval on 13.06.2009.
*** New Zealand’s 81 all out in this game provides the third occasion of a team dismissed all out for a total less than 100 runs against Sri Lanka.
*** RJ Nicol, KD Mills and AJ Mckay scored zeroes in this innings to take the number of zeroes scored by New Zealand batsman in T20I to 24.
*** Nuwan Kulasekhara returned with figures of 3.0-1-4-3 in this game. He became the 14th bowler (and second Sri Lankan) to capture three or more wickets conceding single digit runs in T20I.
*** He bowled a maiden over in this game providing the 81st occasion o of a bowler bowling one or more maiden overs in T20I. He is the fifth Sri Lankan bowler to bowl a maiden over in T20I.
*** Mahela Jayewardene hit a six in his knock of 17 in this game which gave him a total of 35 sixes in the calendar year 2010. His aggregate of 35 sixes provide the seventh occasion of a batsman scoring 35 or more sixes in a calendar year. The complete list read thus – DA Warner (45 in 2010), SE Marsh (38 in 2008), LRPL Taylor (37 in 2008), LRPL Taylor (37 in 2010), LRPL Taylor (36 in 2009), Yuvraj Singh (36 in 2009) and DPMD Jayewardene (35 in 2010)
*** Kulasekhara (3 for 4) and SL Malinga (3 for 12) captured three wickets each in this game providing the 28th occasion of two bowlers capturing three or more wickets in an innings in T20I.

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4 LBWs in a T20 game

Four New Zealand batsmen have been victim of leg before wicket during the game against Sri Lanka on 23.05.2010 at Lauderhill ground in the T20 International match. This is something rare in T20I so far.
This was the only second instance when a team lost their four wickets as LBW. AJ Redmond, Ross Taylor, RJ Nicol and KD Mills lost their respective wickets as LBW. Nuwan Kulasekhara has taken two of them.
Sri Lanka involved in both of these instance. Earlier on 12.10.2008 Sri Lankan bowlers have taken four wickets of Canada as LBW at the King City.
Incidentally Sri Lanka holds the record of most LBWs wickets in an ODI innings. They have taken 6 wickets of New Zealand at Auckland on 06.01.2007 and also 6 wickets of Zimbabwe at Harare on 30.11.2008 as LBW.

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