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Ruturaj Gaikwad played the best innings of his T20I career, scored his first half-century

Sudev Haldar
2 years ago

New Delhi, Online Desk. Ruturaj Gaikwad Ind vs SA 3rd T20I 2022 It was the same batting. In Visakhapatnam, Ruturaj Gaikwad started classing the Proteas bowlers as soon as he came to the crease and scored 50 runs in 30 balls.

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Ruturaj played the best innings of T20 International cricket career

Ruturaj Gaikwad completed his first half-century in International T20 cricket. With the help of 2 sixes and 6 fours in 30 balls. While in this match he scored 57 runs in 35 balls with the help of 2 sixes and 7 fours. During this innings, his strike rate was 162.84 and he was caught by Keshav Maharaj on his own ball. This was his first half-century in T20 International cricket against South Africa. And it also proved to be his best innings in T20 International cricket so far.

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For the first wicket in this match, Ruturaj Gaikwad along with Ishan Kishan put up a strong partnership of 97 runs and gave the team a great start. In this match, Gaikwad also hit 5 fours in 5 consecutive balls in an over of South African fast bowler Anrich Nortje. Talking about Ruturaj Gaikwad’s international T20 cricket. So far he has scored 120 runs in 6 matches at an average of 20 and his best score was 57 runs.

Ruturaj Gaikwad became the fifth highest run-scorer for India in T20I powerplay

50 runs – Rohit Sharma vs NZ (2020)

50 runs – KL Rahul vs SCOT (2021)

48 runs – Shikhar Dhawan vs SL (2014)

46 runs – Rohit Sharma vs BAN (2019)

44 runs Ruturaj Gaikwad vs SA (2022)

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