India kicked off their preparations for the T20 World Cup 2024 with an exhilarating win against Australia within the first T20I match on Thursday, November 23. India registered their greatest profitable chase to take a 1-0 lead within the five-match T20I sequence at residence with captain Suryakumar Yadav making the influence.
The world no.1 T20I bowler shrugged off his poor performances within the not too long ago concluded ICC World Cup 2023 with a shocking fifty at Visakhapatnam’s ADA-VDCA Cricket Stadium. Suryakumar scored 80 runs off simply 42 balls to assist India chase down a 209-run goal and claimed the Player of the Match award.
Despite his struggles in ODIs, the skilled batter has been a constant efficiency within the shortest format of the sport. He has dominated the ICC T20I batting rankings for a while now and has been setting new information with some distinctive performances recently.
His newest knock was his third consecutive fifty in T20Is having scored two back-to-back fifties against West Indies in August.  One extra half-century will assist him turn out to be the first-ever Indian cricketer to obtain 4 consecutive fifties in T20I cricket historical past.Â
Suryakumar is amongst 5 Indian cricketers Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, KL Rahul, and Shreyas Iyer to register three consecutive fifties in T20Is however no participant has managed to stretch the streak to 4. Kohli was the primary Indian to register three successive fifties in T20Is in 2012 and repeated the feat in 2014 and 2016. Suryakumar joined the elite record after smashing three consecutive fifties in 2022 and is on the verge of breaking the record within the second T20I match in Thiruvananthapuram on Sunday.
Most consecutive fifties by Indian cricketers in T20Is:
- 3 – Virat Kohli in 2012, 2014 and 2016
- 3 – Rohit Sharma in 2018
- 3 – KL Rahul in 2020 and 2021
- 3 – Shreyas Iyer in 2022
- 3 – Suryakumar Yadav in 2022 and 2023
