Against Punjab in a Vijay Hazare Trophy match, Sarfaraz Khan blasted the fastest List A half-century by an Indian.
Sarfaraz Khan breaks Indian record with 15-ball half-century
Mumbai bowled out Punjab for 216 after Shreyas Iyer won the toss and opted to field in Jaipur. Anmolpreet Singh scored 57 and Ramandeep Singh 72 to lift them from 65-4, but led by Musheer Khan (3-37), Mumbai came back well to bowl them out.
Coming out at 57-1 at the fall of Musheer’s wicket, Sarfaraz took on the Punjab bowlers. He hit 30 (three fours, three sixes) in an over from Abhishek Sharma, and a further 19 off five balls from Harpreet Brar. In all, he took only 15 balls to reach his fifty – the fastest in List A cricket by an Indian. He went past Abhijit Kale and Atit Sheth, who had taken 16 balls for their respective fifties.
It is worth a mention that a week ago, Sarfaraz had hit a 56-ball hundred against Goa, studded with 14 sixes, in the same tournament.
When Sarfaraz fell for 62 off 20 balls, Mumbai needed a mere 77 in 212 balls with seven wickets standing. But their star-studded line-up collapsed from 191-4 to 215 to give Punjab an incredible one-run win. Gurnoor Brar (4-57) and Mayank Markande (4-31) shared eight wickets as Mumbai were bowled out in 26.2 overs.
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Fastest List A fifties
| Balls | Batter | Team | Opposition | Venue | Season |
| 12 | Kaushalya Weeraratne | Ragama CC | Kurunegala YCC | Colombo | 2005/06 |
| 13 | Thisara Perera | Sri Lanka Army SC | Bloomfield CAC | Panagoda | 2020/21 |
| 14 | Rory Kleinveldt | Western Province | KwaZulu-Natal | Durban | 2010/11 |
| 15 | Adam Hollioake | Surrey | Yorkshire | Scarborough | 1994 |
| 15 | Salman Butt | NBP | Lahore Eagles | Lahore | 2008/09 |
| 15 | Parvez Hossain | Abahani Limited | Shinepukur CC | Savar | 2024/25 |
| 15 | Sarfaraz Khan | Mumbai | Punjab | Jaipur | 2025/26 |
| 16 | Graham Rose | Somerset | Glamorgan | Neath | 1990 |
| 16 | Abhijit Kale | Maharashtra | Baroda | Vadodara | 1994/95 |
| 16 | Matthew Fleming | Kent | Yorkshire | Canterbury | 1996 |
| 16 | AB de Villiers | South Africa | West Indies | Johannesburg | 2014/15 |
| 16 | Tom Bruce | Central Districts | Canterbury | New Plymouth | 2015/16 |
| 16 | Anwar Ali | Baluchistan | Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | Faisalabad | 2018 |
| 16 | Atit Sheth | Baroda | Chhattisgarh | Surat | 2020/21 |
| 16 | Jamie Smith | Surrey | Nottinghamshire | Guildford | 2021 |
| 16 | Matthew Forde | West Indies | Ireland | Dublin | 2025 |
