Bhubaneswar:<\/strong> Nepal\u2019s Dipendra Singh Airee on Wednesday broke Yuvraj Singh\u2019s 16-year-old fastest fifty in T20I cricket record, by reaching the milestone in just 9 balls against Mongolia in Asian Games 2023 at Hangzhou.<\/p>

Dipendra remained unbeaten on 52 off 10 balls, which included eight sixes. His teammate Kushal Malla, a 19-year-old left-handed batter, struck the fastest-ever T20I hundred in the history of the game, reaching the triple-digit score in just 34 ball. With these outstanding knocks, Nepal became the first team to cross the 300-run mark in T20 with the score card reading 314\/3.<\/p>

The team also hit the most sixes, 26, in a T20 innings, and later won their opener by 273 runs.<\/p>

Yuvraj had created the record by scoring 50 off 12 balls in the World T20 match against England on September 19, 2007.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bhubaneswar: Nepal\u2019s Dipendra Singh Airee on Wednesday broke Yuvraj Singh\u2019s 16-year-old fastest fifty in T20I cricket record, by reaching the milestone in just 9 balls against Mongolia in Asian Games 2023 at Hangzhou. Dipendra remained unbeaten on 52 off 10 balls, which included eight sixes. His teammate Kushal Malla, a 19-year-old left-handed batter, struck the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5155,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[149],"tags":[184,165,163],"class_list":{"0":"post-5154","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sport","8":"tag-bhubaneswar","9":"tag-india","10":"tag-odisha"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/publictrustofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/publictrustofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/publictrustofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/publictrustofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/publictrustofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/publictrustofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5156,"href":"https:\/\/publictrustofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5154\/revisions\/5156"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/publictrustofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/publictrustofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/publictrustofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/publictrustofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}