India vs New Zealand 5th T20I: Suryakumar Yadav etched his name in the history books after an incredible effort with the bat during the fifth and final T20I match at the Greenfield International Stadium in Thiruvananthapuram on Saturday. India posted a mammoth total of 271/5 in their 20 overs after being put into bat first.
Suryakumar Yadav has completed his 3000 runs in T20I career, becoming just the third Indian to reach the milestone after the likes of Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma. He is the fastest in the world to complete 3000 T20I runs in terms of balls faced. The senior batter took 1822 balls to reach the feat, going past the UAE captain Muhammad Waseem's record, who stands second in the list. England’s Jos Buttler follows with 2068 balls. Former Australia captains Aaron Finch and David Warner are also prominent on the list, needing 2077 and 2113 balls respectively.
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Fastest to 3000 T20I runs (by balls faced)
1822 Suryakumar Yadav *
1947 Muhammad Waseem
2068 Jos Buttler
2077 Aaron Finch
2113 David Warner
2149 Rohit Sharma
2169 Virat Kohli
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Suryakumar has been in incredible form, which he found during the ongoing series. He played a fiery knock of 63 runs in just 30 balls, hitting four boundaries and six sixes. He stitched an incredible partnership of 135 runs for the third wicket with Ishan Kishan.
Ahead of this match, the right-handed batter was the top run-getter in this series. Having made his debut in the format in 2021, Suryakumar now has 3030 runs to his name in 104 career matches at an average of 36.95. He has four centuries and 24 fifties under his belt. The 35-year-old is the third-highest run-getter for India in the T20I format after Rohit Sharma (4231) and Virat Kohli (4188).
IND vs NZ 5th T20I Playing XIs
India: Sanju Samson (wk), Abhishek Sharma, Ishan Kishan, Suryakumar Yadav (c), Shivam Dube, Rinku Singh, Axar Patel, Varun Chakaravarthy, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Arshdeep Singh
New Zealand: Tim Seifert (wk), Finn Allen, Rachin Ravindra, Glenn Phillips, Mark Chapman, Daryl Mitchell, Mitchell Santner (c), Zakary Foulkes, Matt Henry, Ish Sodhi, Jacob Duffy