ROYAL INNINGS BY CHRIS GAYLE

Chris Gayle took fastest century in cricket history

Unstable West Indies opener Chris Gayle crushed a century off 30 balls in an Indian Premier League (IPL) match on Tuesday and fulfilled on 175 not out, the most astounding ever Twenty20 innings. 

Playing for the Royal Challengers Bangalore, Gayle impacted 17 sixes and 13 fours off only 66 balls to take his crew to a mammoth sum of 263 for five wickets.

Pune Warriors captain Aaron Finch viewed powerlessly as the 33-year-old Jamaican swatted the bowlers to all parts of the ground and a percentage of the sixes flew out of the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium.

Gayle's 30-ball century obscured the 34-ball hundred scored by Australian Andrew Symonds for Kent against Middlesex in 2004. The left-hander likewise posted the most astounding single score in a Twenty20 diversion, going past New Zealander Brendon McCullum's 158.

Ostentatious Pakistani Shahid Afridi holds the record of quickest universal century in the 50-over arrangement (37 balls) and South African Richard Levi (45 balls) has made the speediest universal T20 hundred.