Tilak Verma and Sanju Samson created history in International T20 by scoring centuries, became the number 1 pair in this case.

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Tezzbuzz|16-11-2024

In the last match of the 4-match T20I series in South Africa, India scored a huge score of 283 runs after losing one wicket in 20 overs with the help of centuries from Tilak Verma and Sanju Samson. With this, both of them made the biggest partnership for India in T20I.

Tilak Verma played an unbeaten century of 120 runs in 47 balls with the help of 9 fours and 10 sixes. Sanju Samson played an unbeaten century of 109 runs in 56 balls with the help of 6 fours and 9 sixes. Tilak and Sanju made a record partnership of 210(86)* runs. This is the biggest partnership from India in T20I. Earlier this record was in the name of Rohit Sharma and Rinku Singh, who had made a partnership of 190* runs against Afghanistan.

Apart from this, Tilak and Sanju's partnership of 210(86)* runs is the biggest partnership for any wicket against South Africa. Tilak has scored his second consecutive century. This is Sanju's third century this year. He became the first player to score three centuries in a year. In this match, Sanju scored a century in 51 balls while Tilak scored a century in 41 balls. Two centuries have been scored for the first time in T20I.

With this, Tilak came to third place in terms of scoring the fastest century for India. The fastest century for India was scored by Rohit Sharma in 35 balls against Sri Lanka in 2017. Sanju had hit it in 40 balls against Bangladesh this year.

Players who hit most sixes for India in a T20I match

10 – Rohit Sharma vs Sri Lanka (2017)

10 – Sanju Samson vs South Africa (2024)

10 – Tilak Verma vs South Africa (2024)

9 – Suryakumar vs Sri Lanka (2023)

9 – Sanju Samson vs South Africa (2024)

India's playing eleven: Sanju Samson (wicketkeeper), Abhishek Sharma, Tilak Verma, Suryakumar Yadav (captain), Hardik Pandya, Rinku Singh, Ramandeep Singh, Axar Patel, Arshdeep Singh, Ravi Bishnoi, Varun Chakraborty.

South Africa's playing eleven: Ryan Rickelton, Reeza Hendricks, Aiden Markram (c), Tristan Stubbs, Heinrich Klaasen (wk), David Miller, Marco Janssen, Gerald Coetzee, Andile Simelane, Keshav Maharaj, Lutho Sipamla.

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