With this, Stoinis shattered his teammate David Warner’s record by notching up the fastest half-century for Australia in the shortest format of the game in the T20 World Cup. Also, it is the joint-second-fastest fifty in the history of the T20 World Cup.
Fastest T20I 50s by Australians in T20 World Cup
17 – Marcus Stoinis vs Sri Lanka* 18 – David Warner vs West Indies 2010 18 – Glenn Maxwell vs Pakistan 2014 18 – Glenn Maxwell vs Sri Lanka 2016 19 – David Warner vs South Africa 2009
Fastest 5️⃣0️⃣s in T20 World Cup – No. of Balls Faced
12 – Yuvraj Singh vs England in 2007 17 – Stephan Myburgh vs Ireland in 2014 17- Marcus Stoinis vs Sri Lanka in 2022*
Australia’s batting veteran smacked his fastest half-century in 18 balls against the West Indies in 2010 in Sydney at Sydney Cricket Ground. Stoinis and Stephan Myburgh have scored the joint-fastest half-century in the T20 World Cup. Both took 17 balls to accomplish the feat.
Meanwhile, India’s legendary all-rounder Yuvraj Singh’s record of the fastest half-century, that he notched up in the T20 World Cup in 2007 against England remains undefeated. He clobbered six sixes to Stuart Broad to score the fastest half-century in the shortest format off just 12 deliveries.
