Urvil Patelfaced 35 balls, smacking 113 balls, where he clattered seven fours and 12 sixes, and that too a few days after going unsold in Jeddah.

Urvil Patel, unsold in the recent IPL auction, smashed a 28-ball century in the Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 tournament. This is the fastest T20 century by an Indian, the second-fastest ever, and a record for the Gujarat opener.

The record for the fastest T20 hundred belongs to Sahil Chauhan of Estonia, who got there in 27 balls against Cyprus in Episkopi, Cyprus, in June this year. The record for the fastest century by an Indian belonged to Rishabh Pant,

Gujarat's Urvil Patel scored a 28-ball century against Tripura, becoming the second-fastest T20 century scorer and the fastest even by an Indian batter.