IPL 2017: Top 5 fastest centuries in IPL history

#1 Chris Gayle (30 balls) vs Pune Warriors India, 2013

Gayle flattened the PWI attack beyond repair in an innings of absolute mayhem

Carnage of the highest order.

Helped along with some wayward bowling, Gayle started in an uncharacteristically quick fashion, creaming Ishwar Pandey over the covers to set the ball rolling. After a flurry of boundaries, Gayle set his sights on the stands. A young Mitchell Marsh wasn’t spared, with his length balls finding their way to the crowd’s laps.

Finch resorted to some spin, hoping to slow down Gayle, but the big man just wasn’t in the mood to relent. For some reason, Finch brought himself into the attack, and six balls and 29 runs later, walked back with utter dejection.

Ashoke Dinda came, and was deposited to the roof of the Chinnaswamy. Gayle completed his hundred inside nine overs. A double hundred, a ridiculous idea for a T20 match, suddenly looked a possibility.

It didn’t stop soon after, for Gayle somehow managed to connect every ball with the meat of his bat, sending all kinds of deliveries to the streets nearby. He had reached 150 in 15 overs. He finally ended on 175, the highest score in a T20, and the fastest hundred of all time.