Suryakumar Yadav
The Indian team won the first match of the five-match T20 series against Australia by 2 wickets under the captaincy of Suryakumar Yadav. In this match, Surya showed his magic with the bat and played a brilliant match-winning inning of 80 runs in 42 balls with a strike rate of 190. In this match, the Indian team had a target of 209 runs to win, which they completed in 19.5 overs. Suryakumar also hit four brilliant sixes during his innings, after which he became a part of a special club along with Virat Kohli in T20 International.
Became the fourth player to complete 100 sixes as a middle-order batsman.
Suryakumar Yadav has now become the fourth player in T20 International, who has achieved the feat of completing 100 sixes while playing in the middle order. Before Surya, only three players have been able to do this, in which the first number is former England team captain Eoin Morgan, who has hit 120 sixes in 107 innings while playing in the middle order. At second place is the name of Virat Kohli, who has hit 106 sixes in 98 innings while playing as a middle order batsman in T20 International. After this, at third place is David Miller, who has hit 105 sixes in his name in 98 innings. Now the name of Suryakumar Yadav has come at fourth place in this list, who has completed his 100 sixes in 47 innings while playing in the middle order in T20 International format.
In the T20 International format, Suryakumar has also got a chance to play as an opening batsman in four innings, during which he has scored 135 runs at an average of 33.75, which also includes eight sixes. Surya has played 16 half-century innings so far in T20 International.
Made the highest score as an Indian player in the captaincy debut match
In this match, Suryakumar Yadav also made the record of scoring the highest score in the debut match as Indian captain. While Surya played an inning of 80 runs in this match, earlier this record was in the name of KL Rahul, who had scored 62 runs in his first match as captain in the T20 International match against Afghanistan. Till now, for the Indian team, only these two players have played half-century innings in their debut match as captain in T20.
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