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Abhishek Sharma broke Yuvraj Singh’s long-standing grounds for the fastest T20I half-century by an Indian against Pakistan. (Image credit: Agencies)
NEW DELHI: Abhishek Sharma delivered a sensational show arsenic India defeated Pakistan by six wickets successful their Super Four clash of the 2025 Asia Cup astatine the Dubai International Cricket Stadium connected Sunday. The 25-year-old left-hander not lone dominated the absorption but besides etched his sanction successful the grounds books by breaking Yuvraj Singh’s long-standing grounds for the fastest T20I half-century by an Indian against Pakistan.
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Abhishek reached his 50 successful conscionable 24 balls, surpassing Yuvraj’s erstwhile grounds of 29 balls, acceptable during the 2012 T20I successful Ahmedabad. His assertive innings near the Pakistan bowlers rattled, arsenic the absorption attempted to unsettle the Indian batters with verbal exchanges.
Fastest half-century for India vs Pakistan successful T20Is
Abhishek Sharma | 24 |
Yuvraj Singh | 29 |
Undeterred, Abhishek and vice-captain Shubman Gill countered some the bowling and the sledging, putting connected a 105-run opening basal that laid a coagulated instauration for India’s palmy pursuit of 172.Abhishek’s 74 disconnected conscionable 39 balls besides helped him surpass Yuvraj for the highest idiosyncratic people by an Indian against Pakistan successful T20Is. Legendary Virat Kohli remains astatine the apical of the database with 82* successful the 2022 T20 World Cup successful Melbourne. Kohli’s sanction appears twice, followed by
Gautam Gambhir
with 75, making Abhishek 4th connected this elite list.
Most runs for India vs Pakistan successful T20Is
Virat Kohli | 82* |
Virat Kohli | 78* |
Gautam Gambhir | 75 |
Abhishek Sharma | 74 |
Yuvraj Singh | 72 |
Abhishek is the highest tally getter successful the tourney with 173 runs successful 4 matches, astatine an mean of 43.25 and an astonishing strike-rate of 208.43.