Team India’s opening batsman Abhishek Sharma thrashed the New Zealand bowlers in Nagpur on Wednesday (January 21). 25 year old Abhishek played a quick inning of 84 runs. He faced 35 balls and hit 5 fours and 8 sixes. Abhishek batted brilliantly to rescue Team India from its initial setbacks and created a launch pad for a big score. He became the victim of Ish Sodhi on the last ball of the 12th over.
Abhishek may have missed his third T20 International century but during his explosive innings he has achieved a big achievement. He has become the batsman to score 5000 T20 runs in the fewest number of balls. He broke Andre Russell’s world record. Russell had crossed the mark of 5000 T20 runs in 2942 balls. Whereas Abhishek achieved this milestone in just 2898 balls.
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Left all the scoundrels of T20 behind
Abhishek needed 82 runs to complete 5000 runs in T20. He crossed this figure by hitting a four and then two sixes before being dismissed by Sodhi. As soon as Abhishek became five thousand, he left Russell as well as T20 stalwarts like Tim David and Glenn Maxwell far behind.
5000 runs in fewest balls in Men’s T20
- Abhishek Sharma – 2898 balls
- Andre Russell – 2942 balls
- Tim David – 3127 balls
- Will Jax – 3196 Ball
- Glenn Maxwell – 3239 balls
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India made a huge score
After Abhishek’s dismissal, the Indian team lost the wickets of Shivam Dubey (9), Hardik Pandya (25) and Axar Patel (5) in a short span. At one time, it seemed difficult for the Indian team, which was looking close to 250, to play the full 20 overs. However, Rinku Singh took charge at one end and scored unbeaten 44 runs hitting 4 fours and 3 sixes in 20 balls, taking Team India to the score of 238/7. This is India’s highest T20 total against New Zealand.
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