Abhishek Sharma Fifty Record PtiImage Credit source: PTI
The bat of Team India’s star opener Abhishek Sharma is continuously making noise and at the moment there is no sign of stopping. Abhishek, who had shaken the bowlers with his stormy batting in the first match of the T20 series against New Zealand, destroyed them in the third match. In the third match of the series in Guwahati, Abhishek created a stir by scoring a shocking half-century in just 14 balls. With this, the left-handed batsman scored the second fastest half-century for India, while breaking Ishan Kishan’s record within 48 hours.
Abhishek missed Yuvraj’s record
In the third match of the series at Barsapara Stadium, Guwahati. New Zealand Batted first but its batsmen failed to score runs quickly and could score only 153 runs in 20 overs. In response to this, Abhishek Sharma completed his half-century inside the powerplay while batting explosively for Team India. Abhishek completed his half-century by hitting a six on his 14th ball and broke records with it.
This half-century of Abhishek is the second fastest by India in this format. In this matter, he left behind star all-rounder Hardik Pandya, who had done this feat in 16 balls against South Africa only last month. However, Abhishek missed breaking the record of his mentor and Team India legend Yuvraj Singh, who had achieved this feat in just 12 balls.
But made this world record
At the same time, the record of fastest half-century in this format against New Zealand is now in the name of Abhishek. In the first match of this series, Abhishek scored a half-century in 22 balls, which was the fastest for India against the Kiwi team. But in the second match, Ishaan won it in 21 balls. Now just 48 hours later, Abhishek not only snatched this record from Ishaan but also made a world record. Not only this, for the record third time in T20 International, Abhishek scored a half-century inside the powerplay, which is the highest.
The young Indian batsman ultimately played an unbeaten inning of 68 runs in just 20 balls, which included 7 fours and 5 sixes. On the basis of his innings, Team India achieved the target of 154 runs given by New Zealand in just 60 balls. Apart from Abhishek, team captain Suryakumar Yadav scored a half-century for the second consecutive match and returned unbeaten after scoring 56 runs. Whereas Ishan Kishan played an inning of 28 runs in just 13 balls.