Fastest Century in ODI Cricket and Fastest Fifties

Fastest Century in ODI: The Top of the List

No one else in the data has come close to de Villiers’ 31-ball hundred. Next comes Corey Anderson of New Zealand, 36 balls versus West Indies at Queenstown on 1 Jan 2014, and his teammate Jesse Ryder needed 46 in that same game.

Glenn Maxwell (Australia) is third with 40 balls versus the Netherlands in Delhi, 25 Oct 2023. Asif Khan of UAE follows with 41 against Nepal at Kirtipur on 16 Mar 2023, the only Associate player near the top.

Because of that, the list for Test-playing nations reads slightly differently. Mark Boucher (South Africa) moves up to third there with his 44-ball hundred against Zimbabwe on 20 Sep 2006, and Shahid Afridi (Pakistan) is fourth with 45 against India at Kanpur on 15 Apr 2005.

West Indies were on the receiving end of the top two, and they appear as the opponent in more entries of the top 25 than any other side.

Fastest ODI Century for India

Virat Kohli holds India’s fastest ODI hundred in the data, reaching 100 off 52 balls versus Australia in Jaipur’s Sawai Mansingh Stadium on 16 Oct 2013. He finished on exactly 100. Later that month he added a 61-ball hundred against the same opponents at Nagpur.

Virender Sehwag sits between those two with 60 balls against New Zealand at Hamilton on 11 Mar 2009. KL Rahul’s 62-ball hundred against the Netherlands at Bengaluru on 12 Nov 2023 is fourth, and Yuvraj Singh’s 64-ball effort against England is fifth.

Kohli is the only Indian in the overall top 25. More on that ground is on the Jaipur stadium page, and the wider rivalry is on India vs Australia.

Fastest Fifty in ODI Cricket

Two batters share the fastest fifty at 16 balls: de Villiers in that Johannesburg innings, and MW Forde (West Indies) against Ireland in Dublin on 23 May 2025. Forde finished on 58.

Three batters reached 50 in 17 balls: Liam Livingstone (England), Martin Guptill (New Zealand) and MDKJ Perera (Sri Lanka). Brendon McCullum (New Zealand) appears three times in the fastest fifties table, and Shahid Afridi twice.

Jos Buttler (England) has three entries in the hundreds list, at 46, 47 and 50 balls, as does de Villiers. For quick hundreds in other formats, see the fastest Test century and fastest T20I century pages, or the combined fastest hundreds list.

Fastest Hundreds in Women's ODIs

Smriti Mandhana (India) holds the fastest women’s ODI hundred in the data, 50 balls against Australia at Delhi on 20 Sep 2025. Beth Mooney (Australia) replied with a 57-ball hundred in the same match and made 138.

Sophie Devine (New Zealand) is third with 59 balls against Ireland in Dublin on 10 Jun 2018. Mandhana also has a 70-ball hundred against Ireland at Rajkot. More ODI lists sit on the ODI records hub and the most ODI runs page.