{"id":773941,"date":"2026-09-17T20:04:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T20:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/773941\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T20:04:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T20:04:13","slug":"abhishek-sharma-hits-30-ball-century-for-india-against-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/773941\/","title":{"rendered":"Abhishek Sharma hits 30-ball century for India against Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was Abhishek&#8217;s third T20 international ton and the 10th of his entire T20 career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And while it beat the previous fastest century for a full-member nation &#8211; a 33-ball effort by New Zealand&#8217;s Finn Allen against South Africa at this year&#8217;s T20 World Cup &#8211; it was not even Abhishek&#8217;s quickest in the format.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The thrilling left-hander hit a 28-ball ton for Punjab against Meghalaya in Indian domestic cricket in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Against Afghanistan, he dominated Afghanistan&#8217;s pace bowlers with his pull shot and powered the spinners down the ground.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He helped India take 100 from the powerplay but, after he was caught behind off the bowling of Rashid Khan, the hosts added 79 in the remaining 10.1 overs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Afghanistan collapsed to 94 in response, giving the hosts a 3-0 series clean sweep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was Abhishek&#8217;s third T20 international ton and the 10th of his entire T20 career. And while it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":773942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-773941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=773941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/773942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}