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Suryakumar breaks Babar Azam record: Suryakumar Yadav achieved a special achievement as captain in his first match of T20 World Cup against America. He left Pakistan’s Babar Azam behind by scoring unbeaten 84 runs in 49 balls on his captaincy debut. Chris Gayle is on top of the list.
Suryakumar Yadav made a big record in the first match of T20 World Cup as captain.
New Delhi. Indian team captain Suryakumar Yadav changed the map of the match by playing a brilliant innings for the team in trouble against America. By scoring 84 runs in 49 balls, he placed second in the list of batsmen who scored the most runs on captaincy debut in the T20 World Cup. Suryakumar showed the full range of his shots by hitting ten fours and four sixes at the Wankhede Stadium and started India’s 2026. Will be counted among his best innings in the history of the tournament.
The beginning of the match was a bit difficult for the hosts. Abhishek Sharma was out on the very first ball of the second over after getting caught by Ali Khan in deep cover, which started the batting problems.
Tilak Verma fought back briefly and batted with confidence against Saurabh Netravalkar and Shadley van Schalkwyk, while Ishan Kishan contributed 20 runs. However, Van Schalkwyk dealt a blow to India’s batting by quickly dismissing Kishan, Tilak and Shivam Dubey.
Rinku Singh, Hardik Pandya and Axar Patel were also out cheaply and India had lost six wickets for 77 runs by the 13th over. Van Schalkwyk took 4 wickets and gave only 2 runs. Captain Suryakumar Yadav stood firm in this difficult situation. He showed composure and excellent shot selection, rotated the strike well and carried his innings brilliantly. Suryakumar, the only batsman who understood the wicket completely, showed pace in the death overs, scoring 34 runs in the last two overs, which included 21 runs in the final over. His unbeaten innings took India to a fighting, but below average, score of 161 runs.
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India’s bowling performed brilliantly in the second innings and led to victory by 29 runs. This victory and handling the team especially in difficult situations will give tremendous confidence to Suryakumar for the rest of the tournament. In 2007, Bangladesh captain Mohammad Ashraful scored 61 runs against West Indies. In this edition, Mahela Jayawardene of Sri Lanka had 65 runs in his name. Babar Azam played an unbeaten inning of 68 runs in 2021. Suryakumar Yadav made the second position by playing a not out inning of 84 runs. West Indies legend Chris Gayle is at the top with 88 runs.
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