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Ashutosh Sharma achieved a massive feat during the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy match on Tuesday as he broke Yuvraj Singh's long-standing record of hitting the fastest fifty in a T20 match for India. Railways' batter Ashutosh Sharma smashed an 11-ball half-century to become the fastest Indian batter to score 50 runs in a T20 match. He scripted history against Arunanchal in a Group C match in Ranchi.

Previously, Yuvraj Singh had scored 12-ball fifty against England in the inaugural T20 World Cup in 2007.

Yuvraj Singh held the record for the fastest fifty in T20 cricket for an impressive 16 years until last month when Dipendra Singh Airee from Nepal surpassed it against Mongolia in the Asian Games in Hangzhou. Yuvraj's historic innings in Durban is particularly renowned for his remarkable feat of hitting six sixes in an over off Stuart Broad.

Ashutosh put up an outstanding effort after coming to the crease with only five overs remaining, at the score of 131 for four. In just 12 balls, he scored 53 runs including eight sixes and a solitary four with an astonishing strike rate of 441.66. The majority of his sixes soared over the covers and long-off while others cleared the leg-side boundary behind square. Railways accumulated 115 runs in the final five overs to conclude at a formidable 246 for 5.

The 25-year-old was playing his second T20 for Railways after making his debut for Madhya Pradesh in 2018. Before the record-breaking knock, the batter played only nine T2O games and his last match was in 2018. He has played only one 50-over match for MP in 2019 and is yet to make his debut in a first-class match.