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In the 50th match of T-20 World Cup 2026, Pakistan cricket team’s opener Sahibzada Farhan scored a century (100) in the Super-8 match against Sri Lanka cricket team. This proved to be the second century of his T20 international career. Meanwhile, along with Fakhar Zaman, he also made a big century partnership for the first wicket. Farhan scored 50+ runs for the fourth time in the ongoing tournament. Let’s take a look at his innings and statistics.
Farhan’s innings was strong
Farhan expressed his intentions by hitting fours and sixes against Dilshan Madushanka, who came to bowl the third over of the innings. Farhan completed his half-century in 32 balls on the Pallekele International Cricket Stadium pitch which looked good for batting. Scoring runs continuously, he converted his innings into a century in 59 balls during the last overs. He was out after scoring 100 runs in 60 balls with the help of 9 fours and 5 sixes.
Farhan becomes the batsman with most runs in a World Cup edition
Farhan has so far scored 383 runs in 6 innings in the T20 World Cup 2026 at an average of 76.60, which also includes 2 centuries. Virat Kohli played 6 matches in the 2014 edition and scored 319 runs at an average of 106.33. Notably, India finished as runners-up in the final of that edition, losing to Sri Lanka. Furthermore, Kohli is also the only player to score 250+ runs in multiple T20 World Cup editions.
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Farhan and Fakhar made record partnership
Farhan and Fakhar made a partnership of 176 runs for the first wicket. This became a record for the highest partnership for any wicket in the history of T20 World Cup. Earlier, Tim Seifert and Finn Allen had made an unbroken partnership of 175 runs (in 2026) against UAE. The record for the third highest partnership is held in the name of Jos Buttler and Alex Hales (170* runs vs India, 2022).
Farhan scored 50+ for the fourth time in this edition
Farhan scored 50+ for the fourth time in this edition. Apart from him, Matthew Hayden (2007), Virat Kohli (2014) and Babar Azam (2021) have also made 4 scores of 50+ runs in one edition.
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