If Team India had written a new definition of explosive batting in the T20 match against Bangladesh in Hyderabad on October 12, then a month later on November 15, the Indian team repeated the same definition and again created a stir with its mind-boggling batting. This time the land was not of India but of South Africa and the target was the bowlers from there. In the fourth and last match of the T20 series in Johannesburg on Friday, India scored a huge score of 283 runs against South Africa, while only one wicket fell.
Sanju Samson once again became the star of this destructive performance of Team India, who again scored a century like in Hyderabad. At the same time, he got good support from Tilak Verma because this young batsman showed even tougher attitude than Sanju and scored a century. Now if such a big score is made, so many centuries are scored, then records are bound to be made and that is exactly what happened. Sanju and Tilak not only made their own records, Team India also got some records in its kitty.
Sanju-Tilak rained records
- Sanju Samson scored the third century of his T20 career and all three of his centuries have come this year. In this way, he became the first batsman to score 3 centuries in T20 International in a single year.
- Sanju Samson has come third in the list of Indian batsmen who have scored most centuries in T20 International. Ahead of him are only captain Suryakumar Yadav (4) and former captain Rohit Sharma (5).
- Sanju also became the first batsman for India to score two centuries in the same series, while within a short while, Tilak Verma also repeated his record and became the second Indian batsman to do so. Before these two, only Phil Salt of England has been able to do such a feat in the whole world.
- Tilak Verma scored the second century of his T20 career and this century has come in consecutive matches. He also scored a century in Centurion. In this way, after Sanju, he became only the second Indian batsman to score centuries in two consecutive T20 International matches.
- Tilak has completed his century in just 41 balls, which is the third fastest century for India in this format after Rohit Sharma (35) and Sanju Samson (40).
- Sanju and Tilak scored centuries in this match and in this way, for the first time in T20 International, among the full member countries (i.e. countries playing Test cricket), a team scored 2 centuries in the same innings.
- Both of them made a partnership of 210 runs (not out) for the second wicket, which is the biggest partnership in the history of T20 International. In fact, for the first time there has been a partnership of more than 200 runs in a T20 International match.
- Team India has hit a total of 23 sixes in its innings, which is a new record in T20. Earlier, India, West Indies and Afghanistan had hit 22 sixes each.
- Tilak and Sanju together have scored a total of 4 centuries in this series. This is the first time that a team has scored 4 centuries in a series.
- Team India’s score of 283 runs is the second highest score in the matches played between two full member countries. The record of the highest score (297) is also in the name of India, which came against Bangladesh only last month.