Fastest BBL 100: Glenn Maxwell registers highest score in BBL individual to power Melbourne Stars to highest score in Big Bash League

Fastest BBL 100: The captain of Melbourne Stars has played a blinder of an innings to register the highest individual BBL score.

During the 56th match of the ongoing 11th season of the Big Bash League between Melbourne Stars and Hobart Hurricanes in Melbourne, Melbourne Stars captain Glenn Maxwell’s fifth T20 century has found place in several record books.

In what is Maxwell’s second BBL century, a career-best T20 score has it in it to become one of the best-ever innings in the format. Not much has to be said to describe a T20 innings when a batter hit as many as 22 fours and four sixes in 64 deliveries.

Maxwell, 33, found a boundary every 2.46 balls to put on display a maniac display of batting at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. While Maxwell’s 154* (64) at a strike rate of 240.62 is the highest individual BBL score, it powered Stars to amass a record-breaking highest BBL score of 273/2 in 20 overs after Hobart Hurricanes captain Matthew Wade won the toss and chose to field.

Opening the batting with wicket-keeper batter Joe Clarke (35), Maxwell scored his fastest BBL half-century off 20 balls completing it by running a couple of runs off Hurricanes spinner Sandeep Lamichhane in the sixth over.

In what is his second century of the tournament, Maxwell ran a run off Hurricanes pacer Jordan Thompson in the 11th over to reach the three-figure mark. Having achieved the feat off his 41st delivery, Maxwell has scored the second-fastest century in the history of BBL.

Fastest BBL 100

Batter	Balls	Team	Opposition	Venue	Year
Craig Simmons	39	Perth Scorchers	Adelaide Strikers	WACA	2014
Glenn Maxwell	41	Melbourne Stars	Hobart Hurricanes	MCG	2022
Luke Wright	44	Melbourne Stars	Hobart Hurricanes	Bellerive Oval	2012
Ben McDermott	47	Hobart Hurricanes	Melbourne Renegades	Docklands Stadium	2017
Callum Ferguson	48	Sydney Thunder	Perth Scorchers	Perth Stadium	2019
Matthew Wade	48	Hobart Hurricanes	Adelaide Strikers	Adelaide Oval	2020
Chris Lynn	49	Brisbane Heat	Hobart Hurricanes	Gabba	2015
David Warner	50	Sydney Thunder	Melbourne Stars	MCG	2011