{"id":307991,"date":"2023-04-10T17:43:48","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T17:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2023\/04\/10\/nicholas-pooran-ipl-2023-nicholas-pooran-smashes-fastest-fifty-of-the-season-cricket-news-times-of-india\/"},"modified":"2023-04-10T17:43:48","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T17:43:48","slug":"nicholas-pooran-ipl-2023-nicholas-pooran-smashes-fastest-fifty-of-the-season-cricket-news-times-of-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2023\/04\/10\/nicholas-pooran-ipl-2023-nicholas-pooran-smashes-fastest-fifty-of-the-season-cricket-news-times-of-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicholas Pooran: IPL 2023: Nicholas Pooran smashes fastest fifty of the season | Cricket News &#8211; Times of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/photo\/msid-99387690,imgsize-50058.cms\" \/><\/p>\n<div>NEW DELHI: <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/teams\/lucknow-super-giants\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" data-ga=\"Click-Hyperlink|link_topic-Lucknow Super Giants-https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/teams\/lucknow-super-giants\" target=\"\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lucknow Super Giants<\/a> batter <!-- -->Nicholas Pooran<!-- --> shifted the momentum of the match against <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/teams\/royal-challengers-bangalore\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" data-ga=\"Click-Hyperlink|link_topic-Royal Challengers Bangalore-https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/teams\/royal-challengers-bangalore\" target=\"\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Royal Challengers Bangalore<\/a> with his whirlwind knock as he blasted a 15-ball half-century to own the record of the fastest fifty of the <!-- -->IPL 2023<!-- -->.<br \/>Chasing a huge 213-run target, LSG found themselves in a spot of bother when they were reduced to 105\/5 in 11.1 overs but Pooran came out all guns blazing and started taking RCB bowlers to the cleaners from the word go.<br \/>Pooran smacked six sixes and three fours during the course of his fifty. His fifty is also joint second fastest in the history of the Indian Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>Pooran&#8217;s blitzkrieg came to an end on 62 when he holed out to Shahbaz Ahmed at deep backward square off Mohammed Siraj.<br \/>Yusuf Pathan and Sunil Narine also smashed fifties off 15 balls in 2014 and 2017 respectively.<br \/>The fastest fifty record of all time in IPL belongs to LSG skipper KL Rahul and Pat Cummins who got to the landmark in just 14 deliveries.<br \/>Earlier, <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/ajinkya-rahane\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" data-ga=\"Click-Hyperlink|link_topic-Ajinkya Rahane-https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/ajinkya-rahane\" target=\"\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ajinkya Rahane<\/a> held the record of scoring the fastest fifty in this season. The CSK batter raced to his fifty off just 19 balls against Mumbai Indians.<br \/>Rajasthan Royals batter Jos Buttler and KKR all-rounder <!-- -->Shardul Thakur<!-- --> slammed half-centuries off 20 balls to occupy the third spot.<\/div>\n<p><script>!(function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n    window.TimesApps = window.TimesApps || {};\n    const { TimesApps } = window;\n    TimesApps.loadFBEvents = function() {\n      (function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n        if (f.fbq) return;\n        n = f.fbq = function() {\n          n.callMethod ? n.callMethod(...arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments);\n        };\n        if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n        n.push = n;\n        n.loaded = !0;\n        n.version = '2.0';\n        n.queue = [];\n        t = b.createElement(e);\n        t.async = !0;\n        t.defer = !0;\n        t.src = v;\n        s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n        s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n      })(f, b, e, v, n, t, s);\n      fbq('init', '593671331875494');\n      fbq('track', 'PageView');\n    };\n  })(\n    window,\n    document,\n    'script',\n    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js',\n  );<\/script><script>if(typeof window !== 'undefined') {\n    window.TimesApps = window.TimesApps || {};\n    const { TimesApps } = window;\n    TimesApps.loadScriptsOnceAdsReady = () => {\n      var scripts = [\n      'https:\/\/static.clmbtech.com\/ad\/commons\/js\/2658\/toi\/colombia_v2.js',\n      'https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/grxpushnotification_js\/minify-1,version-2.cms',\n      'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#version=v10.0&xfbml=true',\n      'https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/locateservice_js\/minify-1,version-14.cms'\n    ];\n      scripts.forEach(function(url) {\n        let script = document.createElement('script');\n        script.type=\"text\/javascript\";\n        if(!false && !false && !false && url.indexOf('colombia_v2')!== -1){\n          script.src = url;\n        } else if (!false && !false && !false && url.indexOf('sdkloader')!== -1) {\n          script.src = url;\n        } else if (!false && (url.indexOf('tvid.in\/sdk') !== -1 || url.indexOf('connect.facebook.net') !== -1 || url.indexOf('locateservice_js') !== -1 )) {\n          script.src = url;\n        } else if (url.indexOf('colombia_v2')== -1 && url.indexOf('sdkloader')== -1 && url.indexOf('tvid.in\/sdk')== -1 && url.indexOf('connect.facebook.net') == -1){\n          script.src = url;\n        }\n        script.async = true;\n        script.defer = true;\n        document.body.appendChild(script);\n      });\n    }\n  }\n  <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/top-stories\/ipl-2023-nicholas-pooran-smashes-fastest-fifty-of-the-season\/articleshow\/99387692.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Lucknow Super Giants batter Nicholas Pooran shifted the momentum of the match against Royal Challengers Bangalore with his whirlwind knock as he blasted a 15-ball half-century to own the record of the fastest fifty of the IPL 2023.Chasing a huge 213-run target, LSG found themselves in a spot of bother when they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":307992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[4995,277,275,159362,827,420,165098,6653,1077,6984],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307991"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}