Team India has set up multiple records in the 2nd T20I held against South Africa tonight. Rohit Sharma’s men sealed the series by winning the second match by 16 runs. This happens to be India’s first home T20I series victory against South Africa. Apart from that, it had set up a few other records in this game.
Surya Kumar Yadav’s 18-ball 50 is the joint second fastest 50 in a T20I by an Indian. Yuvraj Singh holds the fastest T20I fifty record (12 balls). Surya Kumar Yadav and KL Rahul are in the second position (18 balls). Gautam Gambhir is in the third position (19 balls).
Surya Kumar Yadav also became the fastest batter to score 1000 runs in T20I format. He achieved the feat in just 573 balls.
237/3 happens to be India’s fourth-highest score in a T20I game. 260/5 (vs Sri Lanka, 2017), 244/4 (vs West indies, 2016) and 240/3 (vs West Indies, 2019) are the top three highest scores.
India’s 237 happens to be the highest T20I total by any team against South Africa. 236/6 (West Indies), 234/6 (England) and 230/8 (England) are the next highest totals against the Proteas in this format of the game.
India scored its second-highest boundaries in a T20 game in this match (38 boundaries). It scored 42 boundaries against Sri Lanka in 2017. That happens to be the first highest boundaries in a single game.
This post was last modified on 3 October 2022 6:22 am
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