There is no denying that records are meant to be broken. One such long-standing record was broken on Saturday when New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum scored the fastest Test century. Playing in his farewell match against Australia, McCullum raced to his hundred in just 54 balls to break a 30-year-old record held by West Indies' batting legend Sir Vivian Richards since 1986 and which was earlier matched by Pakistan's Misbah-ul-Haq in 2014.

Arguably the most destructive batsman of his era and one of the most devastating of all time, Richards had set a plethora of batting records in his 17-year international career. Richards retired in 1991 after scoring 6721 runs in 167 ODI innings at an average of 47, which included 11 hundreds and 45 fifties, and he is one of only five batsmen from before 2000 to clock a strike rate of 90-plus. In Tests, Richards accumulated 8540 runs in 182 innings at an average of 50.23, scoring 24 centuries and 45 half-centuries.

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