Rajasthan Royals' 'New Daanav' Tweet For Shivam Dube After His 15-Ball Fifty Goes Viral

Shivam Dube was on fire for Team India

in the fourth T20I against New Zealand. In the match played at ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium in Visakhapatnam on Wednesday (January 28), which India lost by 50 runs, the 32-year-old batting all-rounder from Mumbai scored 65 runs from just 23 balls. He hammered 3 fours and 7 sixes for the Indian team and needed just 15 balls to reach the 50-run mark in the 216-run chase.

After Dube scored a half-century in just 15 balls, Indian Premier League franchise Rajasthan Royals took to X to share a four-word tweet for Dube. In a tweet which is now going viral on the internet, Royals shared a photo collage of Dube. In one picture, Dube was seen raising his bat after scoring fifty, and in another, scoring a six. The Royals captioned

the photo tweet, “New match. New daanav.”

Here’s a look:

The 15-ball fifty by Dube in Vizag is third fastest half-century by in T20Is by an Indian batter.

The record of scoring the fastest 50 for India in T20Is is in the name of Yuvraj Singh. Yuvraj needed only 12 balls to score a half-century against England in Durban on September 19, 2007.

He is followed by Abhishek Sharma, who scored 50 in 14 balls against the Kiwis in Guwahati on January 25, 2026.

Fastest 50s for India in T20Is

PLAYER	BALLS	AGAINST	VENUE	DATE
Yuvraj Singh	12	England	Durban	September 19, 2007
Abhishek Sharma	14	New Zealand	Guwahati	January 25, 2026
Shivam Dube	15	New Zealand	Visakhapatnam	January 28, 2026
Hardik Pandya	16	South Africa	Ahmedabad	December 19, 2025
Abhishek Sharma	17	England	Mumbai (WS)	February 2, 2025
KL Rahul	18	Scotland	Dubai (DISC)	November 5, 2021
Suryakumar Yadav	18	South Africa	Guwahati	October 2, 2022

The world record for scoring the fastest 50 in T20Is is in the name of Nepal’s Dipendra Singh Airee.

On September 27, 2023, during Nepal’s Asian Games match against Mongolia in Hangzhou, he completed his 50 in just nine balls.

Surya praises Dube

India’s T20I captain Suryakumar Yadav was full of praise for Dube’s knock on Wednesday and stated that one batter with him would have made a lot of difference in the match for India.

“The way Dube batted, one batter with him would have made a lot of difference at the end of the game. I think 50 runs; we lost by 50 runs. But it’s okay. As I said, one or two partnerships like this in a run-chase like this might make a difference,” Surya said during post-match presentation.