Nottingham. Suryakumar Yadav scored the first century of his T20 career. In the third T20 against England (IND vs ENG), he played an explosive innings of 117 runs, but he could not win the team. England won this match by 17 runs. After winning the toss, the English team made a huge score of 215 runs for 7 wickets, playing first. David Malan scored a half-century. In reply, except Suryakumar from India, no other batsman could reach the 30-run mark. The team could score only 198 runs for 9 wickets in the stipulated 20 overs. The team led by Rohit Sharma, however, managed to win the series 2-1. The team has won the fourth consecutive T20 series against England.
31-year-old Suryakumar Yadav has become the most aggressive player for India to score more than 500 runs in T20 Internationals. Talking about his T20 career, he has scored 537 runs in 17 innings of 19 matches at an average of 38. Has scored one century and 4 half-centuries. During this, his strike rate is 177, which is the best. No other Indian batsman has a strike rate above 150. Suryakumar scored 117 runs in 55 balls against England. Hit 14 fours and 6 sixes. That is, 92 runs were scored only from the boundary. The strike rate was 213.
Even Pandya could not do this
If we look at the strike rate of Indian batsmen who have scored more than 500 runs in T20 International, Hardik Pandya is at number two. He has scored 770 runs at a strike rate of 147. But he is behind Suryakumar. Dinesh Karthik has scored 143, KL Rahul has scored 142 and Rohit Sharma has scored runs at a strike rate of 140. Suryakumar Yadav became the 5th Indian batsman to score a century in T20. Earlier Rohit, Rahul, Suresh Raina and Deepak Hooda have also done this.
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Second best innings from India
Suryakumar Yadav equaled Rohit Sharma’s special record in T20 Internationals. He scored 117 runs in the match. This is the second best innings from India in T20 Internationals. Rohit Sharma has played the biggest innings of 118 runs. No other batsman could touch the 115-run mark. Looking at the overall T20 record of Suryakumar of Mumbai, he has scored 4724 runs in 211 matches at an average of 32. He has scored one century and 28 half-centuries. Strike rate is 144.
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Tags: England vs India, India Vs England, Rohit Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav, Team India
FIRST PUBLISHED : July 11, 2022, 05:51 IST
