Abhishek Sharma's record breaking half century. (Photo- PTI)

Abhishek Sharma vs New Zealand: Team India's explosive opener Abhishek Sharma started the year 2026 with a bang. He played a explosive innings in the first T20 match against New Zealand. In this match being played on Nagpur ground, Abhishek completed his half-century in just 22 balls, in which he hit 4 fours and 4 sixes. With this Abhishek Sharma broke many records. This explosive innings of Abhishek also gave a strong start to the team.

Abhishek Sharma's record breaking half century

With this stormy innings, Abhishek Sharma made the record of the fastest T20 half-century made by any Indian batsman against New Zealand.

A fiery FIFTY🔥

7⃣th in T20Is for Abhishek Sharma 👏

He is looking in great touch tonight 😊

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Broke this world record

Abhishek Sharma achieved the feat of scoring a half-century in 25 or less balls for the 8th time in his T20I career, which is a new world record. With this, he has left behind star batsmen like Phil Salt, Suryakumar Yadav and Evin Lewis in the list. These players have scored T20I half-centuries in 25 or less balls 7 times each. But now Abhishek Sharma has gone ahead, he has achieved this feat in just 34 matches.

This innings of Abhishek Sharma is also very important in terms of preparations for T20 World Cup 2026. The young opener once again proved that he has the ability to play big shots in big matches. In the team led by captain Suryakumar Yadav, such form of Abhishek can prove to be a big plus point for the team.