New Delhi. India shook many record books by doing an amazing run chase against New Zealand. In the second T20 held in Raipur, the Kiwi team had set a target of 209 runs for India to win. On the basis of stormy half-centuries of Ishan Kishan and Suryakumar Yadav, Team India chased this score in just 15.2 overs. Ishan Kishan scored 76 runs on 32 balls while Suryakumar Yadav played an unbeaten inning of 82 runs on 37 balls. Ishan Kishan received the Player of the Match award. Team India including Ishaan-Surya made many records during the match. Even Pakistan’s 2 world records were broken. Let’s take a look at the world records made during IND vs NZ 2nd T20-
India took 15.2 overs to chase the target of 209 against New Zealand. This is the third fastest 200+ chase in terms of overs in T20I. This chase by India is the fastest by any full-member team. India has broken the world record of Pakistan, which had chased 205 runs in 16 overs against New Zealand last year.
This is the second time in this series against New Zealand that Team India has scored more than 200 runs after losing two quick wickets. This had never happened before in the history of Indian T20 cricket. After 27/2 in the first T20, India added 211 runs, while in the second T20, after 6/2, India added 203 runs.
India’s chase of 209 runs is the biggest chase in T20I, when two wickets of the team have fallen for less than ten runs. Before him, only one team had been able to successfully chase a target of more than 200 in this situation. In 2022, Papua New Guinea (PNG) scored 204 runs against Singapore, when 2 wickets fell for 5 runs.
The target of 209 that India chased against New Zealand in Raipur is the joint highest successful chase by Team India in T20I. India had chased the same target against Australia in 2023 in Visakhapatnam.
Suryakumar has scored more than fifty runs 10 times in chases of more than 200 in all T20s, which is jointly the most for any batsman. Jos Buttler, David Warner and Reeza Hendricks also have scores of more than ten fifty. Whereas Suryakumar has scored more than fifty runs 4 times in six target chases of more than 200 in T20Is. Only Hendricks (six) and Babar Azam (five) have more such scores than him.
Before scoring 82 runs not out against New Zealand, Suryakumar Yadav had not scored a fifty in 23 consecutive innings in T20I. His last fifty in this format came against Bangladesh in October 2024. During this period, Suryakumar had batted in the top four in all those 23 innings. This is the second longest streak by an Indian batsman without a fifty-plus score while batting in the top four in men’s T20Is. Rishabh Pant is on top with 34 innings.
Ishan Kishan took 21 balls to hit his fifty in Raipur, which is the fastest fifty for India against New Zealand in men’s T20Is. He has broken Abhishek Sharma’s record of 22 balls in the last match of the series in Nagpur.
Ishan Kishan scored 56 runs in the powerplay in the second T20I against New Zealand, the second highest score by an Indian batsman in men’s T20I after Abhishek’s 58 runs against England in Mumbai last year.
India defeated New Zealand in the second T20 with 28 balls to spare. This is the win recorded by a full member team with the most number of balls remaining while chasing a target of more than 200 runs. India has broken Pakistan’s world record in this matter, they had chased the target of more than 200 runs against New Zealand in 2025 with 24 balls remaining.
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