SMAT: Railways batter Ashutosh Sharma breaks Yuvraj Singh’s file of hitting quickest T20 fifty by an Indian

Ashutosh Sharma, a rising star from Railways, has entered the file books by hitting the quickest fifty in T20 cricket by an Indian, surpassing Yuvraj Singh’s earlier file. Sharma achieved this unbelievable feat in the course of the 2023 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy match in Ranchi.

Playing for Railways, Sharma blazed his technique to fifty runs in 11 balls, which was one ball lower than the legendary batsman, Yuvraj Singh, who set the previous file towards England within the 2007 ICC T20 World Cup, when he scored fifty runs in 12 balls.

Sharma batted with an aggressive strategy from the outset, putting six fours and 4 sixes throughout his blistering knock. His explosive batting helped his workforce put up an imposing goal for his or her rivals, reinforcing his rising popularity as a hard-hitting batsman.

Yuvraj’s 12-ball half-century within the 2007 T20 World Cup towards England stood as a file for 16 years. During that explosive inning, the left-handed batsman extremely hit six consecutive sixes off Stuart Broad. Notably, Chris Gayle achieved a 12-ball fifty towards Adelaide Strikers in 2016, and Hazratullah Zazai additionally replicated this feat versus Balkh Legends in 2018.

However, this longstanding file in T20 cricket was not too long ago shattered earlier this month when Nepal’s Dipendra Singh Airee astonishingly reached the 50-run mark in simply 9 deliveries in the course of the 2023 Men’s Asian Games opening match towards Mongolia.

In distinction, Ashutosh, who had solely performed his second T20 match in home cricket, made his T20 debut in 2018 for Madhya Pradesh however hadn’t participated in a T20 recreation since 2019. In the T20 format, this match marked his fourth half-century. He has just one List-A match beneath his belt, which he performed for Madhya Pradesh in 2019, and he’s but to make an look in first-class cricket.

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Oct 17, 2023