Suryakumar Yadav Becomes Fastest Batter In The World To...

India‘s T20I captain Suryakumar Yadav was on fire against New Zealand in the fifth T20I. In the match played at the Greenfield International Stadium in Thiruvananthapuram on Saturday (January 31), the 35-year-old right-handed batter from Mumbai scored 63 runs from 30 balls. During his stay at the crease, he hammered 4 fours and 10 sixes for the Indian team and also added 137 runs from just 57 balls for the third wicket with Ishan Kishan, who made 103 from 43 balls.

In the match that India won by 46 runs to bag the series with a scoreline of 4-1, Surya also completed 3000 runs in T20Is. He is the third Indian after Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli to score more than 3000 runs in the 20-over format of the game for the Men in Blue.

Surya needed 33 runs

in the fifth T20I to join the 3000-run club, and he achieved the objective during the 13th over of India’s innings. On the fifth ball of the over bowled by Lockie Ferguson, Surya hammered him for a four to take his tally of runs to 3001 in the 20-over format of the game.

Indian with 3000+ runs in T20Is

PLAYER	MATCHES	INNINGS	RUNS	BEST	AVERAGE	STRIKE RATE	100/50
Rohit Sharma	159	151	4231	121*	32.05	140.89	5/32
Virat Kohli	125	117	4188	122*	48.69	137.04	1/38
Suryakumar Yadav	104	98	3030	117	36.95	165.48	4/24

A total of 12 batters have scored 3000-plus runs in T20Is, but Surya is the fastest to reach the landmark in terms of balls taken.

He scored his 3000th T20I run on the 1822nd ball. The previous record of being the fastest batter in the world to score 3000 runs in T20Is was in the name of the UAE’s Muhammad Waseem. Waseem, who captains the United Arab Emirates team and also plays as an opening batter, needed 1947 balls to score 3000 runs in T20Is.

Fastest to 3000 T20I runs (by balls faced)

PLAYER	COUNTRY	BALLS
Suryakumar Yadav	India	1822
Muhammad Waseem	UAE	1947
Jos Buttler	England	2068
Aaron Finch	Australia	2077
David Warner	Australia	2113
Rohit Sharma	India	2149
Virat Kohli	India	2169

Surya, who will captain India in the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2026, scored three half-centuries in the five-match T20I series against New Zealand. He finished the series with a total of 242 runs in five matches, and his tally of 242 runs helped him break Virat Kohli’s record of scoring the most runs in a T20I series for the Indian team as captain.