NEW DELHI: CSK batter Urvil Patel recorded the second-fastest T20 century by an Indian in Gujarat’s Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy (SMAT) 2025 match towards Companies at Hyderabad’s Gymkhana Floor on Wednesday, showcasing flamboyance of the very best order. Urvil smashed an unbeaten 119 off 37 balls in an explosive innings, hitting 12 fours and 10 sixes at a strike price of 321.62. Curiously, the wicket-keeper batter had registered the joint-fastest T20 century by an Indian only a 12 months again, registering a 28-ball ton towards Tripura on November 27. Urvil shares the report for the joint-fastest ton with Abhishek Sharma who had smashed a 28-ball century towards Meghalaya in SMAT again in December 2024. Rishabh Pant earlier held the distinctive distinction of being India’s second quickest T20 centurion following his 32-ball ton towards Himachal Pradesh in January 2018, however has now been pushed to the third spot following Urvil’s onslaught. The wicket-keeper batter has additional recorded the very best particular person rating by a Gujarat batter in T20s. Urvil’s father Mukesh Patel expressed immense happiness following his son’s majestic knock, expressing a need to see him fast-tracked to the nationwide workforce.

“I wasn’t following the scores of the match as I often do not watch his video games. Nevertheless, it fills me with nice satisfaction to see Urvil doing so nicely and recording such an imposing feat. It’s time for him to be fast-tracked into the Indian T20I setup contemplating such high quality performances. He’s nicely deserving,” stated Mukesh throughout an unique interplay with TimesofIndia.com.Gujarat defeated Companies by eight wickets, chasing down the 183-run goal in 12.3 overs following a 174-run opening partnership between Urvil and Aarya Desai (60 off 35 balls, 6 fours and three sixes). Aarya offered high quality help, smashing the ball fearlessly at a wonderful strike price of 171.42.“Urvil and I do know one another fairly nicely. Now we have been opening the innings for the reason that U-25 stage and have recorded a number of hundred-run partnerships, having fun with nice readability over one another’s strengths and weaknesses. We have been excessive on confidence earlier than the match on account of Gujarat’s two consecutive wins within the earlier video games and stored chatting about taking part in constructive cricket,” stated Aarya.“The final word focus was on concentrating on the bowlers and never permitting them to settle. We obtained 8 runs within the opening over adopted by 18 runs within the second over which helped in producing high quality momentum, permitting us to bat freely from then on,” he added. Gujarat will face Bengal of their subsequent match on Friday.