Abhishek Sharma has created a huge record in T20 cricket during the first T20I between India and New Zealand at the Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Nagpur. Sharma completed his 5000 runs in T20 cricket.
India star batter Abhishek Sharma etched his name into the history books during the first T20I between India and New Zealand at the Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Nagpur, on Wednesday, January 21.ย
Abhishek turned on his beast mode in the first clash in Nagpur. He completed 5000 runs in T20 cricket with his blistering outing. Coming into the clash, he needed 82 runs to get to the milestone, and the Southpaw got there in no time as he unleashed his carnage on the New Zealand bowlers to create a T20 world record.
Abhishek completed his 5000 runs in the T20 format and has become the fastest player ever to reach there (in terms of balls). Abhishek got to the mark in 2898 balls and shattered the previous record held by Andre Russell, who had achieved the milestone in 2942 deliveries.ย
Fewest balls to 5000 runs in men’s T20s:
2898 – Abhishek Sharma
2942 – Andre Russell
3127 – Tim David
3196 – Will Jacks
3239 – Glenn Maxwell
Abhishek with another world record
Meanwhile, the star opener registered another world record during his blistering outing. He got ot his fifty off 22 balls, which is now the fastest by an Indian batter against New Zealand. The previous record was jointly held by KL Rahul and Rohit Sharma. Both had got to the milestone in 23 balls, with Rahul hitting his knock inย Auckland in 2020 and Rohit slamming his 23-ball fifty in Hamilton inย 2020.
Meanwhile, this was the eighth time that he got to his fifty off 25 or fewer balls, which is now most in T20I cricket.
Hitting half century in 25 or fewer balls most times in T20Is:
8 Abhishek Sharma
7 Phil Salt
7 Suryakumar Yadav
7 Evin Lewis
India were been asked to bat first after New Zealand won the toss. “We are going to bowl first. Looks like a pretty good wicket and looks pretty high-scoring. Last week was pretty special. Every team knows how hard it is to come to India and won but this is a fresh series and they are a tough team in home conditions. Great start for us in terms of prep for the World Cup. Three seamers. Clarke makes his debut, Jamieson and Duffy are playing as well,” Santner said at the toss.
Suryakumar also stated that he would have batted first too. “We were looking to bowl first because we felt there was dew around 8.30 during our practice. But we don’t mind putting runs on the board and we have done well batting first. Shreyas, Harshit, Bishnoi and Kuldeep are the ones who are missing out,” Suryakumar said.