A 22-year-old with no international caps has just rewritten a Pakistan record that stood for more than a decade. Muhammad Shahzad, playing for PTV, reached a first-class century off just 49 balls against Kingsmen Academy on the opening day of the third round of the President's Trophy Grade-I at the Diamond Club Ground in Islamabad.
Shahzad's 49-ball hundred beats the previous record for the fastest first-class century by a Pakistani batter, a 56-ball century scored by former captain Misbah-ul-Haq against Australia in 2014. Reports covering the innings note it also ranks as the eighth-fastest century in domestic first-class cricket history worldwide, placing an uncapped domestic batter's name alongside some of the format's most explosive knocks.
Shahzad kept going well past the milestone, eventually being dismissed for 114 off 62 balls, an innings built on 12 fours and eight sixes. It was his sixth first-class century, a marker that this wasn't simply a slog on a flat pitch but the latest big score from a batter who has now built a habit of scoring at pace in Pakistan's domestic first-class structure.
Pakistan's domestic system is watched closely for exactly this kind of statement innings — a record-breaking, high-tempo hundred from an uncapped batter is precisely the kind of performance that gets forwarded up selection chains. With Pakistan's various white-ball and red-ball squads never short of vacancies to debate, a scoring rate this extreme, on top of a genuine national record, is difficult for selectors to ignore entirely, even if a maiden call-up is far from guaranteed on one innings.
The third round of the President's Trophy Grade-I continues across Islamabad, Abbottabad and Peshawar, with PTV's match against Kingsmen Academy still to be settled from this position. More domestic scorecards and record-watch stories are tracked as the round progresses.
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Scoring figures and the record comparison to Misbah-ul-Haq's 2014 century are verified against same-day match reporting, current as of September 24, 2026.
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