Indian batters hammered 13 sixes during the third T20I against South Africa, which was played at SuperSport Park in Centurion on Wednesday (November 13).
India players produced a super show on Wednesday (November 13) in the third T20I of the ongoing four-match series against South Africa and went on to win it by 11 runs. In the match played at SuperSport Park in Centurion on Wednesday (November 13), India first rode on Tilak Varma’s maiden T20I century to post a total of 219 runs on the board and then successfully managed to defend the target by restricting Proteas to 208 for 7 in 20 overs. Arshdeep Singh picked up three wickets for the Suryakumar Yadav-led side in the match, whereas two South African batters were sent back to the pavilion by Varun Chakravarthy.
India won the third T20I by 11 runs to take a 2-1 lead in the series, and during the match, India also broke three elite T20I records.
- The win over South Africa on Wednesday was India’s 164th victory in 241 T20I matches played so far, and it also helped Men in Blue become the second team in the world after Pakistan to register outright wins in 100 T20Is away from home.
- Indian batters smashed a total of 13 sixes in the third T20I, which helped the 2024 T20 World Cup winners become the first team in the world to hit 200 sixes in T20s in a calendar year.
- The 219-run total in the Centurion T20I was also the eighth time India crossed the 200-run mark in T20Is in 2024. It helped Men in Blue create the record of scoring most 200+ scores in a calendar year. India surpassed seven 200+ scores each by the Birmingham Bears in 2022, India in 2023, and Japan in 2024.
- Tilak Varma scored a century for India in the third T20I, which helped Men in Blue become the third team in the world to score five individual centuries in a calendar year. Indian batters scored five individual centuries in 2023 as well, and during the 2016 edition of the IPL, RCB also scored five centuries.
