Sunil Narine hammered the fastest half-century in the history of the Bangladesh Premier League Twenty20 to boost Comilla Victorians' chase in the second Qualifier against Chattogram Challengers at Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Mirpur Wednesday.
Chasing 149 runs, the Victorians suffered an early setback losing opener Liton Das for a golden duck in the first ball of the innings to left-arm pacer Shariful Islam.
The loss of wicket however, hardly dented Comilla as Narine pulled off fireworks in front of the limited crowed allowed into the stadium on the day.
Narine reached 50 in just 13 balls with four boundaries and half a dozen over boundaries, the quickest in BPL history.
The previous best belonged to Pakistan batter Ahmed Shehzad – who took 16 deliveries – for Barisal Burners against Duronto Rajshahi in maiden edition of the competition in 2012.
The world’s quickest half-century in the format belongs to Indian batsman Yuvraj Singh - off just 12 deliveries against England in the T20 World Cup 2007 in Durban.
Left-handed batter Narine perished scoring 57 off 16 deliveries to left-arm fast bowler Mirttunjoy Chowdhury in the sixth over of the chase but the innings had by then surely demolished morale of the youth based Chattogram.
With the Windies cricketer walking back to the dressing room, the Victorians needed another 70 runs off 86 deliveries.
