Suryakumar, who not too long ago climbed to the second place within the newest MRF Tyres ICC Males’s T20I Participant Rankings, scored an unbeaten fifty, sharing a 93-run stand with KL Rahul to take India previous South Africa’s paltry goal of 107 with 20 balls to spare.
The 32-year-old walked in at No.4 with India in a spot of hassle after being lowered to 17/2 within the seventh over, shedding skipper Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli. Yadav hit two sixes off his first three balls to vary India’s momentum after a sluggish begin.
Throughout his unbeaten knock of fifty not out off 33 balls, Yadav broke two data. First up, he broke the document for many sixes in any calendar 12 months in T20Is. With the 2 sixes early within the innings, Yadav went previous Pakistan’s Mohammad Rizwan’s tally of 42 sixes in 2021.
Yadav struck a complete of three sixes on Wednesday (September 28) evening taking his tally of sixes to 45 in 2022 with three extra months to widen the hole with Rizwan. Whereas Rizwan took 26 innings for 42 sixes, Suryakumar took simply 21 innings to interrupt that document.
Here’s a take a look at the present prime 10 gamers with most sixes in T20Is in a calendar 12 months:
| Participant | Sixes | Innings | Yr |
| Suryakumar Yadav (India) | 45 | 21 | 2022 |
| Mohammad Rizwan (Pakistan) | 42 | 26 | 2021 |
| Martin Guptil (New Zealand) | 41 | 18 | 2021 |
| Tony Ura (Papua New Guinea) | 39 | 11 | 2022 |
| Muhammad Waseem (UAE) | 38 | 13 | 2022 |
| Evin Lewis (West Indies) | 37 | 18 | 2021 |
| Kevin O’Brien (Eire) | 36 | 23 | 2019 |
| Rovman Powell (West Indies) | 36 | 16 | 2022 |
| Colin Munro (New Zealand) | 35 | 12 | 2018 |
| George Munsey (Scotland) | 34 | 15 | 2019 |
Later within the innings, Yadav additionally broke the document for many runs by a Indian in T20Is, surpassing Shikhar Dhawan’s rating of 689 runs in 2018.
Yadav, who has at the moment scored 732 runs within the shortest format in 2022, has scored these runs at a strike fee of greater than 180 and a mean greater than 40.
Here’s a take a look at the highest 10 most runs scored in T20I by Indian in a calendar 12 months:
| Participant | Runs | Common | Strike Fee | Yr |
| Suryakumar Yadav | 732 | 40.66 | 180.29 | 2022 |
| Shikhar Dhawan | 689 | 40.52 | 147.22 | 2018 |
| Virat Kohli | 641 | 106.83 | 140.26 | 2016 |
| Rohit Sharma | 590 | 36.87 | 147.5 | 2018 |
| Rohit Sharma | 497 | 29.23 | 131.48 | 2016 |
| Rohit Sharma | 497 | 26.15 | 146.17 | 2022 |
| Virat Kohli | 471 | 39.25 | 132.67 | 2012 |
| Virat Kohli | 466 | 77.66 | 147.93 | 2019 |
| Shreyas Iyer | 449 | 44.90 | 142.99 | 2022 |
| Hardik Pandya | 436 | 36.33 | 151.38 | 2022 |
Yadav didn’t solely go previous his compatriot Dhawan throughout the knock, he additionally surpassed former Eire batter Kevin O’Brien, who had scored 729 runs in 2019. He’s additionally very near surpassing one other Irishman within the listing of most runs in T20Is in a calendar 12 months.
With the quantity of T20I fixtures remaining within the 12 months, Yadav can add extra to his tally to increase his document for many runs by an Indian within the shortest format in a calendar 12 months in addition to most sixes by any participant in a calendar 12 months.
Right here is the present prime 5 for many runs by a participant in T20Is in a calendar 12 months:
| Participant | Runs | Common | Strike Fee | Yr |
| Mohammad Rizwan (Pakistan) | 1326 | 73.66 | 134.89 | 2021 |
| Babar Azam (Pakistan) | 939 | 37.56 | 127.58 | 2021 |
| Paul Stirling (Eire) | 748 | 41.55 | 140.60 | 2019 |
| Suryakumar Yadav (India) | 732 | 40.66 | 180.29 | 2022 |
| Kevin O’Brien (Eire) | 729 | 31.69 | 155.43 | 2019 |
