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IPL 2023: Nicholas Pooran hits this season's fastest fifty

Pooran played an inning to remember for a long time. He hits the fastest fifty of IPL 2023 in the match against RCB in M. Chinnaswamy.

Abishek GoswamiApril 10, 2023 at 05:57 PM • 2 min read
IPL 2023: Nicholas Pooran hits this season's fastest fifty
Pooran played an inning to remember for a long time. He hits the fastest fifty of IPL 2023 in the match against RCB in M. Chinnaswamy.

Nicholas Pooran of Lucknow Super Giants smashed the fastest fifty of IPL 2023 against Royal Challengers Bangalore at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru on Monday. Pooran brought up his half-century off 15 balls, with a six off Wayne Parnell in the 16th over. He went past Ajinkya Rahane's 19-ball fifty against Mumbai Indians at the Wankhede Stadium. His stormy inning helped Lucknow Super Giants to win the thriller of a match in the last delivery of the last over.

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Pooran's 15-ball fifty is also the joint-second fastest in the history of the IPL. Sunil Narine and Yusuf Pathan have also scored half-centuries with the same amount of deliveries as Pooran. KL Rahul and Pat Cummins hold the record for the fastest IPL fifty (14 balls).

Later, he got dismissed for a 19-ball 62, which included four fours and seven sixes, and put Lucknow in the driver's seat while chasing a mammoth 213.

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The West Indies big hitter was bought for Rs. 16 crores by the Lucknow franchise at the IPL 2023 auction. In IPL 2022, Pooran showed his worth for Sunrisers Hyderabad and scored 306 runs in 14 matches with a striking of 144.34. Pooran made his IPL debut in 2019 for Kings XI Punjab (Punjab Kings) and played three seasons (2019-21) for the franchise. 27-year-old, Pooran has played 51 IPL matches and scored 1053 runs at an average of 27.71 with a strike rate of 157.87.

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IPL 2023: Fastest Half-centuries (Top Five)

Player Team Balls Faced Versus
Nicholas Pooran Lucknow Super Giants 15 Royal Challengers Bangalore
Ajinkya Rahane Chennai Super Kings 19 Mumbai Indians
Shardul Thakur Kolkata Knight Riders 20 Royal Challengers Bangalore
Jos Buttler Rajasthan Royals 20 Sunrisers Hyderabad
Vijay Shankar Gujarat Titans 21 Kolkata Knight Riders

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