Top 10 Youngest century scorers in One Day Internationals

Top 10 Youngest century scorers in One Day Internationals

Star Pakistani all-rounder Shahid Afridi might be on the verge of retirement from all formats of the game. The veteran Pakistani has been struggling with his batting form for quite time now and as it looks he will be dropped from the T20 side as well – the only format he currently plays for Pakistan. The hard hitting batsman’s batting has always suited the shortest format of cricket however in more recent times he has been playing as a bowling all-rounder after missing out his batting flow.

At present he might be near to lose his place from the Pakistan national side but the time has never been the same for him. At his peak and still at times when Afridi gets going there is no stopping for him. Afridi made his intentions clear from very first innings he played as he sits right on top of youngest century scorers list.

Looking at the heroics Shahid Afridi has been doing all his career, the statement that there will be no other Afridi seems quite legit. At the age of just 16 years and 217 days, Shahid Afridi stepped in the field for his first ever ODI innings and the rest is history. It was back in 1996 – the 6^th match of KCA Centenary Tournament against Sri Lanka when the young Pathan wrote history. Afridi went on to score a century on his debut batting innings however it was not an ordinary hundred as he did it just in 37 balls. The youngest century scorers with the fastest hundred in One Day International – admit it this could not have gone any better in cricket history.

The youngest century scorers list is in fact full of players from Pakistan. Saleem Elahi, Shoaib Malik, Ahmed Shahzad, Umar Akmal all come in top of the list with rest of the players also from Afghanistan and Bangladesh. In fact there is no other player apart from these three countries in the top 10 of youngest century scorers list. Hard to believe? See for yourself.