Surya Kumar Yadav Century: Team India’s batsman Suryakumar Yadav played a brilliant century against Sri Lanka and scored an unbeaten 112 in just 51 balls. Along with this, this year Suryakumar Yadav has scored the first T20I century of the year 2023. In the third T20 International match played in Rajkot, he completed the third century of his career in a stormy manner. He hit fours and sixes against the Sri Lankan bowlers and took the team’s score to 228. Suryakumar Yadav scored a total of 112 runs in his innings, which is also his second highest T20 score. In this innings, he scored 7 fours and 9 sixes. During this, his strike rate was 219.
Second fastest T20 century
Suryakumar Yadav completed his third century in T20 International cricket in just 45 balls. In this innings he hit 6 fours and 8 sixes. This is the second fastest T20I century for India. Suryakumar Yadav completed his half-century in 26 balls in this match. After this, he used only 19 balls to reach the century.
Fastest T20 century for India
- 35 balls, Rohit Sharma (2017)
- 45 balls, Suryakumar Yadav (2023)*
- 46 balls, KL Rahul (2016)
- 48 balls, Suryakumar Yadav (2022)
- 49 balls, Suryakumar Yadav (2022)
The special thing is that Suryakumar Yadav has so far played a century in T20 International cricket three times and has scored a century in less than 50 balls all three times. It is clearly visible that his form which was made from the year 2022, has remained intact this year also. Along with this, Suryakumar Yadav has also completed his 1500 T20 runs. He achieved this feat in just 843 balls. In terms of number of balls, he has become the fastest batsman to score 1500 runs in T20 matches.
Posted By: Shailendra Kumar