{"id":75397,"date":"2025-05-24T12:01:18","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T07:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=75397"},"modified":"2025-05-24T12:01:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T07:01:18","slug":"west-indies-forde-equals-fastest-odi-fifty-record-of-de-villiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/west-indies-forde-equals-fastest-odi-fifty-record-of-de-villiers\/","title":{"rendered":"West Indies&#8217; Forde equals fastest ODI fifty record of De Villiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DUBLIN: West Indies <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/pakistani-all-rounder-shortlisted-for-icc-april-player-of-the-month\/\">all-rounder<\/a> Matthew Forde equalled AB de Villiers&#8217;s record for the fastest one-day international half-century before Friday&#8217;s match against Ireland in Dublin was abandoned due to rain.<\/p>\n<p>Forde reached 50 in just 16 deliveries, matching the mark set by South Africa&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/champions-trophy-2025-south-africa-thrash-afghanistan-by-107-runs\/\">De Villiers<\/a>, one of the outstanding limited-overs batsmen of his generation, in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>In all, Forde struck eight sixes and two fours in a 19-ball 58 as West Indies piled up an imposing 352-8 in their 50 overs.<\/p>\n<p>Keacy Carty had earlier hit 13 fours and a six during a less spectacular 102 off 109 deliveries.<\/p>\n<p>Liam McCarthy led Ireland&#8217;s attack with 3-66, while Barry McCarthy and Josh Little took two wickets each.<\/p>\n<p>But the match was abandoned without Ireland even starting their reply following a two-hour rain delay.<\/p>\n<p>Ireland lead the three-match series 1-0 after their 124-run win on Wednesday, with the two sides set to meet again in the finale on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Brief score:<\/p>\n<p>West Indies 352-8, 50 overs (K. Carty 102, M Forde 58; L McCarthy 3-66) v Ireland<\/p>\n<p>Result: No result (rain)<\/p>\n<p>Series: Ireland lead three-match series 1-0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUBLIN: West Indies all-rounder Matthew Forde equalled AB de Villiers&#8217;s record for the fastest one-day international half-century before Friday&#8217;s match against Ireland in Dublin was abandoned due to rain. Forde reached 50 in just 16 deliveries, matching the mark set by South Africa&#8217;s De Villiers, one of the outstanding limited-overs batsmen of his generation, in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":75398,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28983,28984],"class_list":["post-75397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-fastest-odi-fifty","tag-forde"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75399,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75397\/revisions\/75399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}