THE FASTEST CENTURY AND HALF CENTURY'S IN CRICKET WORLD CUPS.

KEVIN O'BRIEN SMASHES THE FASTEST ODI CENTURY

    FASTEST ODI CENTURY is a tougher list to rewrite but world cups have their own significance, with much wider audiences and even fruitful rewards for the batsmen who achieve it. In following, we see what are the fastest individual century (hundred) and half century (fifty) in one day cricket world cups over the years..

Kevin O'Brien holds this prestigious record, off just 50 balls, overtaking from Mathew Hayden by clear margin of 16 balls. In World cup 2015, Glenn Maxwell made a hundred off 51 balls while AB de Villiers reached three figure mark off just 52 balls a week before. Hayden had snatched the record off Jim Davison of Canada.

Kapil Dev of India once held the record of fastest world cup century for a long time, scoring 175 unbeaten that day at Tunbridge which saved Indians a sorry defeat against debutant Zimbabweans when they were five wickets down for almost nothing on board. 

Notice Adam Gilchrist's 72 ball century versus Sri Lanka, which was the final match. Gilchrist hit 8 sixes that day. Virender Sehwag has made fastest Indian hundred in ODI world cup, off 81 balls against Bermuda. Also see presence of Sunl Gavaskar who once batted for all 60 overs in a world cup match making just 36 runs and but retired with one of the fastest century as well.