What happened to Tilak Verma? (Photo- PTI)
Team India batted brilliantly against Sri Lanka in their last match of the Asia Cup 2025 Super-4 round. In this match, the Indian team managed to cross the 200 runs figures. He also became the first team to score 200 runs in this edition. In which the biggest contribution was to Abhishek Sharma and Tilak Verma. Tilak Verma played a strong innings while batting at number four, but during this time an incident happened with him, which had never been seen before.
What happened to Tilak Verma?
Indian batsman Tilak Verma performed brilliantly against Sri Lanka and played an important innings for the team. In this match played at Dubai International Cricket Stadium, Tilak scored an unbeaten 49 off 34 balls, which included 4 fours and 1 six. However, he remained just one run away from the half -century. In the last over of the innings, Tilak Verma also had a chance to complete the half -century, but for the team he sacrificed his half -century. He thought it right to keep Akshar Patel on strike, due to which the team could cross the 200 runs mark.
With this innings, Tilak Verma remained unbeaten on 49 runs in T20 International for the second time. Tilak had earlier felt unbeaten for 49 runs in T20 International against West Indies in 2023 and returning to the pavilion. With this, he became the first batsman in the world to return unbeaten pavilion for 49 runs in T20 International cricket. Earlier, no such incident happened with any batsman.
Team India scored 202 runs
Team India received the first batting invitation after losing the toss in this match. Team India took full advantage of this and scored 202 runs at the loss of 5 wickets in 20 overs. Apart from Tilak Verma, Abhishek Sharma also played a strong innings. He managed to score 61 runs off 31 balls, in which he hit 8 fours and 2 sixes. Apart from him, Sanju Samson also scored 39 runs off 23 balls. Finally, Akshar Patel played an unbeaten innings of 21 runs off 15 balls.