Suryakumar Yadav scored a century in the third match against South Africa. This is Surya’s fourth century with the bat in T20 Internationals. With this century, Suryakumar Yadav has joined Rohit Sharma and Glenn Maxwell in joint first place in the list of batsmen with the most centuries in T20 Internationals.
Rohit Sharma and Glenn Maxwell have scored four centuries each in T20 Internationals. After this in the list Babar Azam, Colin Munro and Saboon Davies have scored three centuries each.
On the other hand, Suryakumar Yadav has managed to overtake Glenn Maxwell for the most centuries batting at number three in T20 Internationals. Coming in to bat at number three, Glenn Maxwell has scored three centuries, while Suryakumar Yadav now has four centuries to his name.
Along with this, Suryakumar Yadav has become the second most sixes for India in T20 Internationals. He has left behind Virat Kohli in this matter. Rohit Sharma has hit the most sixes in T20 Internationals for India. Rohit Sharma has hit 182 sixes in 140 innings. While Surya has hit 123 sixes in 57 innings. While Virat Kohli has hit 117 sixes in 107 innings. Fourth on the list is KL Rahul, who has hit 99 sixes in 68 innings. While Yuvraj Singh has hit 74 sixes in 51 innings.
Suryakumar Yadav hit 8 sixes in the series decider against South Africa and moved to fourth place in the list of most sixes in an innings by a batsman for India. Surya hit 8 sixes in this match.
This is Suryakumar Yadav’s first T20 International century as captain and his first century for India in T20 Internationals. Captain Became the second batsman to score a century. Rohit Sharma has scored two century innings as captain.
At the same time, this was Surya’s 15th innings of 50-plus runs from the bat, batting at number four or below, becoming the first England batsman to do so. Captain Eoin Morgan is left behind. Eoin Morgan has scored more than 50 runs 14 times while batting at number 4 in T20 Internationals. While third in this list is Glenn Maxwell who has done so 11 times.
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