In the third T20 match against Afghanistan, Abhishek Sharma scored a historic century and played a brilliant inning of 108 runs. In this innings, he scored 102 runs with only sixes and fours. Abhishek made a partnership of 142 runs with Sanju Samson for the first wicket. Both of them also made the highest powerplay score in T20 for India by adding 100 runs in the powerplay.

Abhishek Sharma made three big records in his name during his brilliant batting in this match.

Indians who have scored most centuries in T20

Abhishek Sharma has equaled Virat Kohli's record in terms of scoring most centuries in T20 cricket.

Abhishek has scored 10 centuries in 205 innings, while Virat Kohli has scored 10 centuries in 413 innings. In this list, KL Rahul, Sanju Samson and Rohit Sharma are behind him with 8-8 centuries.

Fastest century in T20 International

Abhishek Sharma has become the batsman to score the fastest century in T20 International among full member teams.

Earlier this record was in the name of Sikandar Raza of Zimbabwe, who had scored a century in 33 balls in 2024.

Record of scoring 200+ runs in a series or tournament

Abhishek Sharma has also reached joint second place in the list of Indian batsmen who have scored more than 200 runs in a T20 International series or tournament. This is the third time he has scored more than 200 runs in a series or tournament.

In the series against Afghanistan, Abhishek scored 82 runs in the first match, 39 runs in the second match and 108 runs in the third match. His total score in three innings was 229 runs.

In this case, Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Verma and Ishan Kishan have also scored more than 200 runs 3 times each. Whereas Virat Kohli is the Indian batsman to do this 5 times.

India won the match by 127 runs

Apart from Abhishek Sharma, Sanju Samson also played a brilliant half-century and scored 50 runs.

Chasing the target, Afghanistan team was reduced to 94 runs. India won the match by 127 runs and won the three-match series 3-0.

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