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Dashun Shanaka: In the 25th match of the Caribbean Premier League, St. Kitts and Patriots faced St. Lucia Kings. In this match held on Thursday, September 3, St. Kitts won by 137 runs. The hero of this victory of Patriots was former Sri Lankan captain Dasun Shanaka, who batted brilliantly with a strike rate of 281 and played an unbeaten inning of 121 runs. In the match, Shanaka completed his century in just 39 balls.

Dasun Shanaka’s bat thundered in CPL

In fact, in this match played at Warner Park in Bosset, Dasun Shanaka performed brilliantly while playing for St. Kitts and Patriots. In this match, he batted at an excellent strike rate of 281.40 and played a stormy inning of 121 unbeaten runs in just 43 balls, which included 12 sixes and 8 fours. During this, Shanaka completed his century in just 39 balls. Let us tell you, this was the fastest century in CPL history.

Andre Russell’s record broken

Let us tell you, earlier in the Caribbean Premier League, the fastest century came in 40 balls, which was jointly recorded in the names of Andre Russell, Tim Seifert and Shimron Hetmyer. Now Dasun Shanaka has made the record of fastest century by scoring a century in 39 balls. Before this, Shanaka had also scored a century in 39 balls in Sri Lanka’s domestic T20 cricket. This is the second time that he has completed his century in the same number of balls.

Dasun Shanaka Cricket Career

Talking about the cricket career of 34-year-old former Sri Lankan captain Dasun Shanaka, so far he has played 6 Tests, 71 ODIs and 134 T20 matches for Sri Lanka in international cricket. In Test, he has 140 runs in his name in 12 innings. At the same time, he has scored 1299 runs in 63 innings of ODI. Whereas he has scored 2008 runs in 121 innings of T20 cricket.