Afridi's 43-ball 101 lifts Hampshire

Pakistan's Shahid Afridi blasted 101 in only 43 balls to inspire Hampshire's 101-run victory at Derbyshire in the Twenty20 Blast quarter-finals on Tuesday. All-rounder Afridi hit seven sixes and 10 fours to power Hampshire to 249 for eight, their highest T20 score.

Boom boom boom! Shahid Afridi has smashed his maiden T20 hundred#BoomBoom #Blast17 https://t.co/OBO4nLiINv pic.twitter.com/bZuuwRPiYi

— ESPNcricinfo (@ESPNcricinfo) August 22, 2017

Skipper James Vince made 55 from 36 balls as Hampshire passed their previous best of 225 for two against Middlesex in 2006 and, faced with an improbable target of 250, the Falcons crumbled to 148 all out with Liam Dawson and Kyle Abbott each taking three wickets. Hampshire promoted Afridi to opener against the county he played for in 2003 and he swept and drove four boundaries from Wayne Madsen's first over before Calvin Dickinson took two fours from Hardus Viljoen.

This is extraordinary from boom boom!! @NatWestT20Blast @SAfridiOfficial— Aaron Finch (@AaronFinch5) August 22, 2017

Afridi's previous high score in the competition this season was 18 but he pulled Ben Cotton for six before driving him over the top of the three-storey media centre. He reached his fifty off only 20 balls with a top-edged six but after driving Imran Tahir for another huge six, he was dropped on 65 at long-on by Madsen.

Shahid Afridi blasts a 42-ball 100 for Hampshire, the second fastest century by a Pakistani in T20s. Fastest: Ahmed Shehzad (40 balls). pic.twitter.com/Vlnj3tl3G4

— Mazher Arshad (@MazherArshad) August 22, 2017

It proved expensive as Afridi dispatched Matt Critchley and Tahir for two more sixes on his way to a blistering hundred before he top-edged another big pull and was caught at long-leg.BRIEF SCOREDerbyshire 148 in 19.5 overs (Abbott 3/25, Dawson 3/28) lost to Hampshire (Afridi 101, Vince 55) by 101 runs