Indian opening batsman Abhishek Sharma etched his name into cricket history by becoming the fastest batter to reach 2,000 runs in T20 cricket in terms of balls faced.
Achieving the feat during the third T20 match against West Indies in Indore, Abhishek reached the 2,000-run milestone in just 1,024 balls, comfortably surpassing the previous world record held by Suryakumar Yadav (1,164 balls). Needing just 33 runs prior to the match, the explosive left-hander played a blistering knock of 69 runs off 30 balls, reaching his half-century in just 18 balls—the joint third-fastest T20 half-century against West Indies.
With this milestone, Abhishek joins an elite club of Indian batters with 2,000 T20 runs, alongside Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya, and KL Rahul. In a remarkable calendar year, Abhishek has accumulated 921 runs across 32 matches at a staggering strike rate of 206.50, smashing 68 sixes to equal Suryakumar's Indian record for most T20 sixes in a single year. Furthermore, he set another unprecedented benchmark by crossing 50 runs in the first six overs for the 7th time in T20s—a feat no other player in world cricket has achieved more than twice.
— Daily Best News Desk • Fearless in the search for truth
Reported by Sports Desk • Edited by the Daily Best News desk. Send corrections to [email protected].
