History was created by Team India on Friday, October 12 in the third and final T20I against Bangladesh in Hyderabad with their highest-ever total of 297/6. The astonishing aggregation also marks the highest total recorded among Test-playing nations. Sanju Samson was the star of the match, he played a 47-ball innings and blazed his way to 111 runs, hitting 11 fours and eight sixes, and five of them off one over from Rishad Hossain. It was the first T20I hundred by Samson, which he achieved in just 40 balls.
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India Scores 2nd Highest T20I Total
India’s total of 297/6 has now become the second-best ever in T20 cricket, behind only Nepal’s 314/3 against Mongolia in 2019. They made Afghanistan’s previous record of 278/3 against Ireland the best-ever achieved by a Test-playing nation.
Joint Best Power-Play Score
India did well in the game after Suryakumar Yadav won the toss and chose to bowl: In the first six overs, they reached 82/1, which is their joint-best powerplay score in T20Is. They did not even take 7.1 overs to cross 100, which has become a new team record for the side. India was at 152/1 by the halfway mark of the team’s innings, which is a personal best.
Second-Fastest 200 Runs In T20I
They also registered their second-fastest 200 runs in the T20I history by doing it in just 14 overs having left only South Africa’s 13.5 overs against the West Indies at Centurion last year behind.
Most Number Of Boundaries: 47 In T20
In their innings, India smacked 47 boundaries-the most for any side in T20 history along with 22 sixes-third highest number of sixes in one T20I inning.
Sanju Samson: The Only Wicket-Keeper To Score A Ton
Sanju Samson emerged as the star of the show and became the first Indian wicketkeeper to score a T20I century while his 111 runs are the most by an Indian against Bangladesh.
He is also the fastest to a fifty for India, taking just 22 balls, which is a ball quicker than Rohit Sharma took for his second fifty for India in 2019.
Samson Becomes The 3rd Fastest Centurion In T20I History
Samson is also the third-fastest centurion in T20I history, trailing only South Africa’s David Miller and India’s Rohit Sharma, who both made their respective centuries in 35 balls.
Also Read: India vs Bangladesh, 3rd T20I: India Post Highest-Ever T20I Total
Most Number Of Overs With Double-Digit Runs
India scored more than 10 runs in 18 out of the 20 overs and this set a new record for the most overs to be scored with double-digit runs in men’s T20 cricket. The other major aspect of the innings was the epic partnership between Samson and Suryakumar, who gave 173 runs off 61 balls, the highest ever recorded partnership in the history of T20I except Nepal’s 193-run stand between Kushal Malla and Rohit Paudel.
(With ANI Inputs)
