India’s T20I captain Suryakumar Yadav is on fire for India in the ongoing 2nd T20I match against Bangladesh. In the match taking place at the Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh International Stadium in Raipur,
he needed just 23 balls to complete his half-century. The fifty in 23 balls by Surya in the ongoing match is his first half-century in T20Is for India after 463 days.
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Surya played 21 T20Is for India in 2025 but was not able to score even one fifty. In fact, his last half-century in T20Is for India was against Bangladesh.
In the third T20I played against the Bangladeshi team in Hyderabad on October 12, 2024, Surya scored 75 runs from 35 balls.
Surya reached the 50-run mark by taking a single on the fourth ball of the 11th over of India’s innings in the 209-run chase. He has hammered six fours and two sixes so far for the hosts.
Ishan breaks Abhishek’s record
Before Surya ended his long-wait for a T20I fifty for India, Ishan Kishan made headlines with his super show with the bat.
The left-handed wicketkeeper-batter scored 76 runs from 32 balls.
He needed just 21 balls to complete his half-century.
The fifty by Ishan in just 21 balls on Friday (January 23) helped him break Abhishek Sharma’s record of the fastest half-century for India in a T20I match against New Zealand.
World No. 1 T20I batter Abhishek needed 22 balls in the first T20I against New Zealand on Wednesday (January 21) to reach the 50-run mark.
Ishan completed his half-century by hitting Matt Henry for a four on the fourth ball of the sixth over of the Indian innings. He hammered 9 fours and 2 sixes en route to his fifty.
At the end of six overs of India’s innings in the 209-run chase, Ishan was batting on 56 runs from 23 balls. The score of 56 runs by Ishan at the end of powerplay was the second highest score by an Indian batter in Powerplay after Abhishek Sharma’s 58(21) vs England at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on February 2, 2025.
