Jaipur: Former New Zealand explosive wicketkeeper batsman Brandon McCullum is currently on a tour of India as a coach with the English team. Team India defeated England by a big margin of 4–1 in the T20 International series of 5 matches recently ended. In the fifth and final T20, the Indian team washed England by 150 runs, after which the bridges of the praise of Indian opener Abhishek Sharma, who scored a century from just 37 balls in the match, are being bridged. Along with newspapers and news channels, Abhishek is constantly dominated on social media. After his fiery innings, the legends of cricket are not tired of praising him. Now the English coach has also praised Sharma and described his century innings as the most brilliant innings played in T20 format so far.

McCullum told that he was surprised after Abhishek Sharma's fiery innings. He has described this innings as one of the best innings in T20 history. The left -handed opener hit 7 fours and 13 sixes during an explosive innings of 135 runs off just 54 balls in the fifth T20I at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. Since this innings, Abhishek remains the center of constant discussion among the opposition team.

After the match, Brandon said that Abhishek Sharma collapsed England's pace attack in the presence of Jofra Archer and Mark Wood with his aggressive stroke play. The English team had no answer to Abhishek's back to back attack. This was the reason that the team was shattered for only 97 runs under the pressure of big target. He also praised Abhishek Sharma's strategy for playing against England's best fast bowlers.

McCullum said that playing with so much aggression against that team, which has four fast bowlers throwing balls at a speed of 150 km per hour, playing with so much aggression is a big thing.

McCullum, while pushing his point, said that we have seen many players in this format of cricket in the last few years, who are recognized for playing such explosive innings, including Chris Gayle of West Indies, Australia's Aaron Finch, Along with AB de Villiers of South Africa, Abhishek Sharma has also joined this list.

Significantly, former New Zealand opener Brandon McCullum is known for his 'Bazball' style in the England team. This fast -paced batting style started on his Nick Name 'Badge'.