Phil Salt can create history in the first T20I against AUS, chance to break Suryakumar Yadav's record

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Tezzbuzz|11-09-2024

England vs Australia 1st T20I: The first match of the third T20 International match series will be played between England and Australia on Wednesday (September 11) at the Rose Bowl Stadium in Southampton. According to Indian time, this match will be played from 11 pm. England's opening batsman and acting captain Phil Salt will have a chance to make a special record in this match.

If Salt scores 115 runs in this match, he will reach the second position in terms of scoring the fastest 1000 runs for England in T20 International. Salt has scored 885 runs in 29 innings of 31 T20 Internationals at an average of 35.40. He will have a chance to leave behind former batsmen Kevin Pietersen and Alex Hales. Both these legends had completed 1000 runs in 32-32 innings. David Malan is at the top of this list with 24 innings.

He will also have a chance to surpass India's star batsman Surya Kumar Yadav (31 innings) in this list.

Let us tell you that so far only eight players have reached the 1000 run mark for England. Apart from Malan, Pietersen and Hales, the names of Jos Buttler, Eoin Morgan, Johnny Bairstow, Jason Roy and Moeen Ali are recorded in it.

Apart from this, if he hits five sixes, he will complete his 50 sixes in this format. For England, only Butler, Morgan, Hales, Malan, Bairstow, Roy and Moeen have achieved this feat.

It is worth noting that the team's regular captain Butler is out of this series due to injury. Salt has been given the command of the team in his place.

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