Abhishek Sharma’s heart broken! Virat could not break King Kohli’s T20 record

By Samira Vishwas On Dec 20, 2025

In fact, if Abhishek Sharma had scored just 13 more runs in this match, he would have broken the 9-year-old record of great batsman Virat Kohli and become the highest T20 run scorer for an Indian in a calendar year, but he could not do so and this golden opportunity was lost from his hands.

Let us know that in the year 2016, Virat Kohli created a stir in T20 cricket and scored 1614 runs in 29 innings of 31 matches at an average of 89.66. During this period he had scored 4 centuries and 14 half-centuries. If we talk about Abhishek Sharma, he came very close to Virat’s special record and in the year 2025, he added 1602 runs in 40 innings of 41 matches, scoring 3 centuries and 9 half-centuries.

Highest run scorer in Indian T20 in a calendar year

Virat Kohli – 1614 runs (2016)

Abhishek Sharma – 1602 runs (year 2025)

Suryakumar Yadav – 1503 runs (year 2022)

Suryakumar Yadav – 1338 runs (year 2023)

Yashasvi Jaiswal – 1297 runs (year 2023)

If we talk about the fifth T20 match between India and South Africa, then the host team has come on the field with three in its playing eleven. He has included Jasprit Bumrah, Washington Sundar, and Sanju Samson in the combination in place of Harshit Rana, Kuldeep Yadav, and Shubman Gill. Let us tell you that Shubhman Gill is injured. On the other hand, South Africa has added George Linde in the playing eleven in place of Enrique Norkhia.

Both teams are like this

India (Playing XI): Abhishek Sharma, Sanju Samson, Tilak Verma, Suryakumar Yadav (captain), Hardik Pandya, Shivam Dubey, Jitesh Sharma (wicketkeeper), Washington Sundar, Varun Chakraborty, Jasprit Bumrah, Arshdeep Singh.

South Africa (Playing XI): Quinton de Kock (wk), Reeza Hendricks, Aiden Markram (captain), Dewald Brewis, David Miller, Donovan Ferreira, George Linde, Marco Johnson, Corbin Bosch, Lungi Ngidi, Otniel Bartman.