Abhishek Sharma was stripped of his fiftyImage Credit source: Getty Images
The start of the Ireland tour was very bad for Team India. It had to face defeat at the hands of host Ireland in the very first match of the 2-match T20 series. Hardly anyone would have thought that the two-time current T20 World Champion would not be able to play even the full 20 overs against a small team like Ireland. But this match brought a double blow for the team’s star opener Abhishek Sharma. Not only did the team lose, but after the end of the match, one run was also deducted from their account, due to which their half-century was also snatched away.
In this match played on June 26 in Belfast, Ireland, batting first, scored 182 runs, which is a new record at this ground. The hope was that it would be filled with more explosive batsmen than one another. team india Would achieve this target but exactly the opposite happened. Team India could not even reach the 20th over and collapsed for only 148 runs in 18.5 overs. In this way it was defeated by 34 runs.
Abhishek hit fifty in 19 balls
In this match, where most of the batsmen including team captain Shreyas Iyer and T20 World Cup player of the tournament Sanju Samson failed, Abhishek Sharma’s bat once again roared. Abhishek started the process of scoring boundaries from the very first over and continued it and scored a half-century in just 19 balls. However, he was out on the 20th ball and his score was 50 runs. This was the 5th time in T20 International, when he completed fifty in 20 or less balls, whereas no other batsman has been able to do this more than 3 times.
But the story changed after the match
But as soon as the match ended, the score of 49 runs instead of 50 was shown next to Abhishek’s name in the scorecard. This surprised everyone and it seemed that perhaps it was some kind of mistake in the scorecard. But after some time the real story became clear, which was a bit heartbreaking. Actually this happened because one run was wrongly added to Abhishek’s score. This 1 run came on the last ball of the second over of the innings, which actually did not come from Abhishek’s bat, but was from leg bye. In such a situation, that mistake was rectified after the match and in this way a half-century was snatched from Abhishek.
