{"id":782096,"date":"2026-09-25T11:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T11:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/782096\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T11:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T11:10:08","slug":"muhammad-shahzad-smashes-fastest-first-class-century-by-a-pakistani-batter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/782096\/","title":{"rendered":"Muhammad Shahzad smashes fastest first-class century by a Pakistani batter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cricinfo.com\/cricketers\/misbah-ul-haq-41378\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Misbah-ul-Haq<\/a> previously held the record for the fastest first-class century by a Pakistan batter for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cricinfo.com\/series\/australia-tour-of-united-arab-emirates-2014-15-727905\/australia-vs-pakistan-2nd-test-727929\/full-scorecard\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">56-ball effort<\/a> against Australia in the second Test at Abu Dhabi in 2014. Misbah, at the time, levelled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cricinfo.com\/cricketers\/viv-richards-52812\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Viv Richards<\/a>&#8216; record for the fastest Test century. But that record was broken two years later by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cricinfo.com\/cricketers\/brendon-mccullum-37737\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brendon McCullum<\/a>, when he made a 54-ball century against Australia in Christchurch in the second Test of the series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Misbah-ul-Haq previously held the record for the fastest first-class century by a Pakistan batter for 56-ball effort against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":782097,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[132648,1721,36623,49,50,132647,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-782096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-bulletin","tag-cricket","tag-daily","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-package","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782096","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=782096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/782097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}