New Delhi: India’s wicketkeeper batter Ishan Kishan was declared player of the series after he smashed 77 runs of 66 balls in the last and decisive match against the West Indies at the Brain Lara Stadium in Trinidad on Tuesday, August 1.
Player of the Series 🌟
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Ishan Kishan scores three consecutive fifties against WI
India trashed the host by huge margin of 200 runs and sealed the series by 2-1. Ishan Kishan hammered 3 consecutive fifties in the series as he accumulated 143 runs in 3 One Day matches. The 25-year-old batter became the sixth Indian to score three consecutive half-century in an ODI.
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Player with most fifties in bilateral series
The first Indian player to score half-centuries in all three matches of a bilateral series was Krishna Ramachari Srikkanth, who scored half-centuries in all three matches against Sri Lanka in 1982. India’s Dilip Vengsarkar also scored three consecutive half-centuries against Sri Lanka in the same year and he became the second Indian batsman to do so.
Former captain of the Indian team, Mohammad Azharuddin, is in third place, who scored fifty in all three matches of the series against Sri Lanka in the year 1993. India’s most successful captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni is in fourth place in this case, he scored half-centuries in three consecutive matches against Australia in the year 2019. Please tell that he played his last international match during the ODI World Cup in the year 2019 itself.
Shreyas Iyer is fifth in the list of Indian batsmen who have scored half-centuries in three consecutive ODIs, having scored brilliant half-centuries in all three matches of the series played against New Zealand in the year 2020. At the same time, Ishaan Kishan has become the sixth Indian batsman to do so by scoring half-centuries in all three matches against the West Indies. He scored 52 in the first ODI, 55 in the second and 77 in the third against the West Indies.
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List of Indian players
- Krishnamachari Srikkanth vs Sri Lanka (1982)
- Dilip Vengsarkar vs Sri Lanka (1982)
- Mohammad Azharuddin vs Sri Lanka (1993)
- MS Dhoni vs Australia (2019)
- Shreyas Iyer vs New Zealand (2020)
- Ishan Kishan vs West Indies (2023)
