FASTEST IPL 50

From Yashasvi Jaiswal to Nicholas Pooran, let us take a look at the players to have scored the fastest fifty in IPL

Yashasvi Jaiswal

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KL Rahul

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Pat Cummins

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Jake Fraser-McGurk

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Yusuf Pathan

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Sunil Narine

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Nicholas Pooran

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