Fastest hundred in a Cricket World Cup match (male)

On 25 October 2023 at the Men’s Cricket World Cup in India, Australia’s Glenn Maxwell reached three figures in just 40 balls, including eight sixes and eight fours, while playing the Netherlands at Delhi’s Arun Jaitley Stadium. Maxwell’s hundred elevated Australia to 399 for 8. He was out for 106, off 44 balls. Australia went on to wallop the Netherlands (90 all out) by 309 runs – comfortably the highest margin of victory by runs at the Cricket World Cup (male).

This surpassed a record set just 18 days earlier by South Africa’s Aiden Markram, who smashed a ton in just 49 balls, with three sixes and 14 fours, against Sri Lanka on 7 October 2023. Markram eventually fell for 106 off 54 balls as South Africa posted 428 for 5 – the highest team score in a Cricket World Cup match. In reply, Sri Lanka were bowled out for 326; the combined total of 754 runs was the most runs scored by teams contesting a Cricket World Cup match.

Just three players have hit faster hundreds than Glenn Maxwell in a One-Day International (ODI): AB de Villiers (31 balls for South Africa against the West Indies in Johannesburg, South Africa, on 18 January 2015; Corey Anderson (36 balls for New Zealand against the West Indies in Queenstown, New Zealand, on 1 January 2014); and Shahid Afridi (37 balls for Pakistan against Sri Lanka in Nairobi, Kenya, on 4 October 1996).