Five fours, 5 sixes and strike rate of 252… Hardik Pandya scored the second fastest half-century of T20I!

Hardik Pandya: Hardik Pandya created an outcry with his stormy batting at the Narendra Modi Cricket Stadium in Ahmedabad. South Africa’s strong bowling attack was seen begging for water in front of Hardik, who came to bat at number five. In his innings of 25 balls, Hardik scored 63 runs while hitting fours and sixes.

Hardik also scored the second fastest half-century for India in the shortest format of cricket. Hardik also got good support from Tilak Verma from the other end and together they made a century partnership.

Hardik created an uproar

Team India lost the wicket of its captain Suryakumar Yadav on the score of 115 runs. After this Hardik Pandya came to the crease. As soon as Hardik came, he started his innings by hitting a powerful six on the first ball. Hardik hit 3 sixes and two fours in a single over of George Linde and scored a total of 27 runs. Every bowler of South Africa looked helpless in front of the star batsman of Team India.

Hardik completed his half-century in just 16 balls. This is also the second fastest fifty from India in T-20 International. Hardik created havoc with a strike rate of 252 in his innings of 25 balls. In this inning, he hit 5 fours and the same number of skyscraper sixes.

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Tilak also looted the gathering

Along with Hardik Pandya, Tilak Verma also stole the show with his stormy batting. Tilak played a brilliant inning of 73 runs facing 42 balls. Playing with a strike rate of 173, Tilak hit a total of 10 fours and one six in his innings. Apart from Tilak, Sanju Samson also played a strong inning of 37 runs in 22 balls. Whereas, Abhishek Sharma scored 34 runs in 21 balls. Shivam Dubey remained unbeaten after scoring 10 runs in 3 balls, on the basis of which the Indian team was successful in scoring 231 runs losing 5 wickets on the score board.

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