On Sunday July 7th, India drew level with Zimbabwe’s Chevrons 1-1 in the five match series after their victory over them in the second T20I. The Men in Blue captained by Abhishek Sharma won the second encounter by 100 runs at the Harare Sports Club as he led them well with his 100.
Abhishek became the initial player who scored a T20I century in a USA-Zimbabwe match. On hitting three digits, he also set a number of other records. During his debut for India, the 23-year-old aggressive batsman was able to manage zero vs Zimbabwe in his last T20I game.
Abhishek has become part of a very small group of players who have started their T20I career with ducks before going on to score tons in each of their first two innings. In fact he is now just the third man ever in the history of 20-over matches worldwide that has commenced playing at this level by making a duck before racking up hundreds alongside Evin Lewis Romania’s Sivakumar Periyalwar
In just 33 balls a fantastic fifty was reached by the left-handed opener before changing gears completely when he got to 50; however he didn\’t stop there as he hit 26 runs off Dion Myers during the 11th over. On the other hand the SRH opener managed to bring up 46 ball centuries, which is tied third fastest by any Indian ever.
Abhishek Sharma was awarded Player of the Match for his exceptional performance.
