Suryakumar Yadav Smashes Multiple Records in India vs Sri Lanka 3rd T20I

In
the
third
T20I
at
the
SCA
Stadium
in
Rajkot
on
Saturday
(January
7),
Yadav,
who
is
in
the
form
of
his
life,
became
the
fastest
player
to
reach
1500
runs
in
the
shortest
format
in
terms
of
balls
taken.

The
32-year-old
took
only
843
balls
to
reach
this
landmark
in
T20I
cricket,
the
fastest
among
all
players
and
he
also
became
the
third-fastest
to
reach
the
1500-run
mark
in
T20Is
in
terms
of
innings.

The
fastest
batters
to
reach
the
landmark
in
terms
of
innings
are
Indian
batters
Virat
Kohli,
KL
Rahul,
Australian
veteran
Aaron
Finch
and
Pakistan
skipper
Babar
Azam,
who
all
took
39
innings
to
score
1500
runs
in
T20Is.

Pakistan
wicketkeeper-batter
Mohammed
Rizwan
reached
the
milestone
in
42
innings,
while
Suryakumar
follows
him
in
the
list
by
reaching
the
milestone
in
43
innings.

Yadav
is
also
the
first-ever
player
to
reach
the
landmark
with
a
strike
rate
of
150
or
more.
In
45
matches
and
43
innings,
he
has
scored
1578
runs
at
an
average
of
46.41
and
a
strike
rate
of
180.34.

With
his
51-ball
unbeaten
knock
of
112,
Yadav
now
has
three
centuries
and
13
half-centuries
in
the
format,
with
the
best
individual
score
of
117.

He
is
now
joint
second-highest
for
players
with
centuries
in
T20Is.
Only
Indian
skipper
Rohit
Sharma
has
four
T20I
centuries.
Yadav,
Glenn
Maxwell
of
Australia
and
New
Zealand’s
Colin
Munro
all
have
three
centuries
each.

Suryakumar
also
smashed
the
second-fastest
century
by
an
Indian
batter
in
T20Is,
taking
just
45
balls
to
bring
up
his
third
century
in
the
shortest
format.
The
fastest
T20I
century
by
an
Indian
is
by
skipper
Rohit,
who
scored
a
35-ball
ton
against
Sri
Lanka
in
2017.

Yadav
now
also
has
joint
12th
fastest
hundred
T20I
along
with
South
Africa
batter
Richard
Levi.
The
fastest
(35
balls)
is
jointly
held
by
Rohit,
David
Miller
and
Sudesh
Wickramasekara.

Top
15
Fastest
Hundreds
in
T20I