Suryakumar Yadav Just One Century Away From Equaling Rohit Sharma
IND vs SL 3rd T20 Series 2023: Suryakumar Yadav is just one century away from equaling Rohit Sharma. Suryakumar Yadav completed his third century in those T20Is.
This is the third century of Yadavโs T20 International career:-
Yadav (Suryakumar Yadav) continued his excellent form and scored a blistering century in the last and decisive T20 (IND vs SL 3rd T20) against Sri Lanka (IND vs SL). This is the third century of Suryakumar Yadavโs T20 International career (Surya Century in T20I).
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Surya scored 112 runs in 51 balls at the Rajkot ground, which included 7 fours and 9 sixes. Due to his innings, the Indian team managed to set a mammoth target of 228 runs in front of Sri Lanka.
The third century came in 43rd innings:-
Suryakumar Yadav has become the Indian batsman to score the most centuries after Rohit Sharma in T20 Internationals.
Rohit Sharma has four T20 International centuries to his name. Whereas Surya is just one step away from matching him. This third T20 International century of Suryakumar came in the 43rd innings.
The fourth-highest score for India:-
Let us tell you that Suryakumar Yadavโs score of 112 runs in T20 International is the fourth-highest score for India. The special thing in this list is that the third and fifth best score is also by him.
He scored an inning of 117 against England in Nottingham in 2022, while he scored 111 against New Zealand.
In this case, Virat Kohli is on top and scored a brilliant century against Afghanistan in Asia Cup 2022.
122(61) Virat vs Afghanistan, Dubai 2022 118(43) Rohit Sharma vs Sri Lanka, Indore 2017 117(55) Suryakumar Yadav vs England, Nottingham 2022 112 (51) Suryakumar Yadav v Sri Lanka, Rajkot 2023
111*(51) Suryakumar Yadav v New Zealand, Mount Maunganui 2022.
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Apart from this, Suresh Raina, Deepak Hooda, and Virat Kohli have scored centuries in the T20 format. Suryakumar Yadav has become the second Indian player to do so more than twice.