Suryakumar Yadav, the genius T20 player, was at it once more as he slammed his fourth century in the format for India in the three-match collection decider in opposition to South Africa in Johannesburg on Thursday, December 14. It wasn’t a typical Surya knock as after a primary blitz in the powerplay, the Indian captain struggled for a bit and was batting on 27 off 25 deliveries earlier than going into the herculean mode as he usually does, scoring three sixes and a 4 in as many deliveries to get to his fifty off simply 32 balls. Surya introduced up his subsequent fifty in simply 23 balls to full a 55-ball hundred.
Surya is now the third batter to rating 4 centuries in males’s T20Is and is now on the prime of the record with Rohit Sharma and Glenn Maxwell, who even have the identical variety of lots of in the worldwide T20s. Surya, nevertheless, reached the mark in simply 57 innings whereas Rohit and Maxwell achieved the identical feat in 79 and 92 innings, which tells you the gap between him and different T20 batters in the mean time.
Most centuries in T20Is
Suryakumar Yadav (India) – 4 in 57 innings
Glenn Maxwell (Australia) – 4 in 92 innings
Rohit Sharma (India) – 4 in 140 innings
Sabawoon Davizi (Czech Republic) – 3 in 31 innings
Colin Munro (New Zealand) – 3 in 62 innings
Babar Azam (Pakistan) – 3 in 98 innings
Surya’s 100 can also be now the third highest rating by an Indian captain in T20Is whereas he grew to become the primary batter in males’s T20I history to smash all centuries in 4 totally different nations. Surya’s T20I centuries have come in England, New Zealand, India and now South Africa. While Maxwell scored two in India and one every in Sri Lanka and Australia, Rohit’s three centuries had been in India whereas the remaining one got here in England.
As for the match, Surya stitched a 112-run stand with opener Yashasvi Jaiswal, who hit his third fifty in T20Is, to information India to a robust rating of 201 runs on the board.
