Records tumble as Sakib Gani scores fastest Vijay Hazare ton as 3 of the 4 fastest centuries in men’s List A cricket came on the same day.
Records kept tumbling in a crazy day of action in the 2025 Vijay Hazare Trophy.
On Wednesday, the opening day of the 2025-26 Vijay Hazare Trophy, Sakibul Gani scored the fastest century in men’s List A cricket by an Indian. Ishan Kishan quickly moved up to the second spot on that record, with Gani reaching his milestone off 32 balls and Kishan off 33. All of that came after Vaibhav Suryavanshi scored an incredible 190 off 84 balls, including a tonne off 36 balls.
All of that combined to make it a record-breaking day overall, as three of the four fastest List A hundreds by Indians have now been reached on the same day in two distinct locations—Ahmedabad and Ranchi. In List A cricket, only two batters—Jake Fraser-McGurk and AB de Villiers—have scored hundreds more quickly than Gani.
Kishan scored the game-winning century in their Vijay Hazare Trophy opener against Karnataka in Ahmedabad, just one week after winning the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy with Jharkhand and topping the run-scoring rankings.
A few minutes before Kishan achieved the milestone, Gani made history by hitting his century off just 32 balls as Bihar defeated Arunachal Pradesh by 574 in a Plate League match in Ranchi.
As Jharkhand finished with a massive 412 for 8 after being put into bat by Karnataka, Kishan, who fought his way back into India’s T20I team for the New Zealand series and the T20World Cup next month, hammered seven fours and fourteen sixes in his knock, finishing with 125 off 39 balls.
He reached his half-century off 20 balls and was dismissed at No. 6 when Kumar Kushagra’s wicket fell at the 38-over mark. Then, in the next 13 deliveries, he hit seven sixes off his two fours to get his century.
“When I was not selected in the Indian team, I felt quite bad because I was doing well,” Kishan had said after helming Jharkhand to the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy title last week. “But I told myself that If I am not selected with this sort of performance, then maybe I have to do more. Maybe, I have to make my team win. Maybe we have to do well as a unit.”