Maxi honestly said: “I love the fastest 50, fastest 100 records. I think they're pretty cool records. Sometimes to the detriment of myself, I've always probably pushed the boundaries a bit too much. I think against Afghanistan in 2015 (World Cup), I was 88 off 37 and I was like I'm getting into the next two balls I hit one straight to cover and butchered it. I think I got my fastest 100 in the next game.

“I've been in those positions before (when I realized) I could make fast hundreds. I know when I get on the run - I'm difficult to bowl to. It's just about getting past the first ball,”  He was probed further when he was asked if a century was on his mind when he was on 75 with two overs remaining, he said: ”It wasn’t really on my mind. I was going to try and farm the strike for the back end. I think it was about five overs to go and I told Pat (Cummins) that I was going to try and control the last five overs as much as I possibly could. If I got it on a run, I thought there was no point in taking singles because it might just be a single back and forth where I could get a bunch of balls in a row and hopefully find some hitting."

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Maxi took apart Bas de Leede in the penultimate over when he struck him for two fours and three back-to-back sixes to race away to his record century. On the 49th over he said “On a ground like this (at Kotla) if you can put pressure on a certain bowler and get a hold of them a couple of times in a row, you can produce mistakes, you can produce errors. I felt like that was what I did in the 49th over. I was able to put pressure on his good balls to get bad balls, where I could actually hit for sixes.

So, I suppose that was just my tactics at the back end. I was lucky enough to get a couple of full tosses at the back end, which highlighted, I suppose, there was a pretty good chance I was going to get 100,” he concluded summing up his brilliant knock.