Rahul Tiwari
khelja|05-12-2024
This year has been very special for Team India's young batsman Abhishek Sharma. His bat has played very well in this special T20 format. Abhishek Sharma attracted everyone's attention with his explosive batting in IPL 2024. After this he also got a chance to debut for the Indian team. Now his bat is on fire in the Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 Trophy also. In this tournament he scored a record-breaking century against Meghalaya. Along with this, he also defeated Suryakumar Yadav in a great record of sixes.
Abhishek Sharma played an unbeaten inning of 106 runs in 29 balls while chasing the target of 143 runs in 20 overs in the match played against Meghalaya. During this, he completed his century in just 28 balls. With this he equaled the record of scoring the fastest century in T20 for India. In this innings, 11 sixes and 8 fours were seen from the bat of Abhishek Sharma. At the same time, his strike rate was 365.52.
By hitting 7 sixes in this match, Abhishek Sharma became the Asian batsman to hit the most sixes in T20 in a year. Earlier this record was in the name of Suryakumar Yadav. Suryakumar Yadav had hit a total of 85 sixes in T20 in the year 2022. But Abhishek Sharma has gone ahead in this list with 87 sixes. Whereas, Rahmanullah Gurbaz is at third place in this list with 81 sixes. He has hit 81 sixes this year, so he also has a chance to leave Surya behind. However, Surya is also currently playing in the Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 Trophy.
Abhishek Sharma has also become the batsman who has scored the most centuries in the Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 Trophy. He has scored 4 centuries so far in the Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 Trophy. At the same time, no other batsman has been able to score more than 3 centuries. Ishan Kishan, Shreyas Iyer, Ruturaj Gaikwad and Unmukt Chand are at second place in this list with 3 centuries each. However, all these players have played more than 50 innings in the Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 Trophy and Abhishek has played only 48 innings so far.