In the Asian Games gold medal match against Pakistan, Indian star batsman Abhishek Sharma created a ruckus on the field with his stormy batting. Abhishek played a brilliant inning of 61 runs in just 28 balls, destroying the opposition bowlers. During his explosive innings, he not only put Team India in a strong position, but also achieved five more big feats in his name, equaling the historical record of former Indian captain Virat Kohli.
Equaling Virat Kohli’s rare record: Scored half-centuries in two big T20 finals
Abhishek Sharma has joined the list of select players in T20 International history who have scored fifty plus in the final matches of two different T20 tournaments. This great record for India was earlier recorded only in the name of Virat Kohli. Abhishek had recently scored a match-winning fifty in the final of the T20 World Cup 2026 and now he has repeated this charisma against Pakistan in the title match of the Asian Games. Let us tell you that Virat Kohli had achieved this feat in the finals of T20 World Cup 2014 and T20 World Cup 2024.
Second Fifty against Pakistan: Beat the legendary Indian batsmen
Abhishek Sharma has also gone ahead in terms of performing brilliantly in high-pressure matches against arch-rivals like Pakistan. This is his second fifty plus score against Pakistan in T20. Virat Kohli (5 times) holds the record of scoring most number of fifties for India against Pakistan. With this innings, Abhishek has left behind powerful Indian batsmen like Gautam Gambhir, Ishan Kishan, Tilak Verma, Robin Uthappa and Yuvraj Singh.
100+ sixes twice in a calendar year: The only Indian to do so
Abhishek Sharma proved his power-hitting prowess and achieved the feat of hitting more than 100 sixes in a single calendar year for the second time. He has become the only batsman from India to do so. He had hit 108 sixes in the year 2025, whereas so far in 2026 he has hit 104 sixes. If we look at the level of world cricket, he has jointly reached the third place with Nicholas Pooran of West Indies among the batsmen who have hit 100+ sixes twice in a calendar year, while Chris Gayle is at the top by doing this feat 6 times.
Fastest 100 sixes in Asia and completed 400 T20 sixes in his career.
Abhishek Sharma has completed 100 T20 sixes this year facing just 651 balls. He has become the first batsman in the whole of Asia to hit 100 sixes in the fewest number of balls. At the world level, only Andre Russell (589 balls) is ahead of him. Along with this, Abhishek has also crossed the magical figure of 400 sixes in his T20 career, for which he faced a total of 3513 balls.