{"id":14691,"date":"2023-03-26T20:40:24","date_gmt":"2023-03-26T15:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/?p=14691"},"modified":"2023-03-26T20:40:24","modified_gmt":"2023-03-26T15:40:24","slug":"johnson-charles-hits-39-ball-century-beating-chris-gayles-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/2023\/03\/26\/johnson-charles-hits-39-ball-century-beating-chris-gayles-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnson Charles hits 39- ball century, beating Chris Gayle\u2019s record"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Johnson Charles hits 39- ball century, beating Chris Gayle\u2019s record<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Johnson Charles broke Chris Gayle\u2019s record for the fastest men\u2019s T20 hundred for West Indies by hitting a 39-ball century against South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson Charles beat Gayle to the landmark by eight balls, also making it the joint fourth fastest ton in men\u2019s T20s.<\/p>\n<p>The right-hander was eventually out for 118 from 46 balls but his score helped his side post 258-5 in Centurion- their highest score in men\u2019s T20s.<\/p>\n<p>Charles hit 10 four and 11 sixes before being bowling by Marco Johnsen.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa\u2019s David Miller, India\u2019s Rohit Sharma and Sudesh wickramasekara of Czech Republic jointly hold the record for the fastest hundred in men\u2019s T20s., reaching three figures in 35 balls.<\/p>\n<p>Charles equalled the next best effort, also achieved by Zeeshan Kukikhel of Hungary against Austria and Romania\u2019s Sivakumar Periyalawar against Turkeys.<\/p>\n<p>Charles \u201839- ball effort is not the fastest by any player for West Indies, Deandra Dottin hit a century in 38 balls for the women\u2019s team against South Africa in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Sources : BBC<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johnson Charles hits 39- ball century, beating Chris Gayle\u2019s record Johnson Charles broke Chris Gayle\u2019s record for the fastest men\u2019s T20 hundred for West Indies by hitting a 39-ball century against South Africa. Johnson Charles beat Gayle to the landmark by eight balls, also making it the joint fourth fastest ton in men\u2019s T20s. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":14692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2297,2305,2299],"tags":[2870,2871,2873,2872],"class_list":["post-14691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-sports","category-world","tag-jonson-charles","tag-south-africa","tag-t20","tag-west-indies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14691"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14694,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14691\/revisions\/14694"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}