{"id":428452,"date":"2026-01-21T20:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T20:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/428452\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T20:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T20:34:09","slug":"abhishek-sharma-fastest-to-5000-t20-runs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/428452\/","title":{"rendered":"Abhishek Sharma fastest to 5000 T20 runs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2898 Number of balls <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/cricketers\/abhishek-sharma-1070183\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Abhishek Sharma<\/a> took to complete 5000 runs in T20 cricket &#8211; the quickest to the milestone ahead of Andre Russell, who got to 5000 in 2942 balls. No other batter has got there with a strike rate of 160 or more.<\/p>\n<p>7 Number of T20I fifties in less than 25 balls for Abhishek, the most sub-25-ball half-centuries for a batter in men&#8217;s T20Is along with Saudi Arabia&#8217;s Faisal Khan. Evin Lewis, Rohit, Phil Salt and Suryakumar Yadav have six each.<\/p>\n<p>5911 Number of balls <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/cricketers\/suryakumar-yadav-446507\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Suryakumar Yadav<\/a> took to complete 9000 runs in T20 cricket &#8211; the second quickest to the milestone behind Russell (5321). Glenn Maxwell (5915) is third.<\/p>\n<p>22 Number of balls Abhishek took for his fifty in Nagpur, the fastest for India against New Zealand in men&#8217;s T20Is. The previous quickest was off 23 balls by KL Rahul and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/cricketers\/rohit-sharma-34102\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rohit Sharma<\/a> during the 2020 tour of New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>238 for 7 India&#8217;s total in Nagpur is their highest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/ask\/cricket-qna\/highest-total-for-India-vs-NZ&amp;tournament=menst20i\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">against New Zealand<\/a> in men&#8217;s T20Is. Their previous highest was 234 for 4 in Ahmedabad in 2023. It is also the third-highest total against New Zealand <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/ask\/cricket-qna\/highest-totals-vs-NZ&amp;tournament=menst20i\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in men&#8217;s T20Is<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"712\" width=\"570\"\/>Fastest to 5000 runs in men&#8217;s T20s\u00a0ESPNcricinfo Ltd<\/p>\n<p>287.83 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/cricketers\/rinku-singh-723105\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rinku Singh<\/a>&#8216;s batting strike rate in the 19th and 20th overs in T20Is &#8211; 213 runs off 74 balls, with 22 sixes and 14 fours. It is the best strike rate among <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/ask\/cricket-qna\/batters-with-best-strike-rate-in-final-two-overs-min:-100-runs&amp;tournament=menst20i\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">all batters<\/a> with 100-plus runs from available ball-by-ball data.<\/p>\n<p>Rinku strikes at 302.63 in the 20th over, having scored 115 runs off 38 balls. Only Nepal&#8217;s Dipendra Singh Airee (347.16) has a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/ask\/cricket-qna\/batters-with-best-strike-rate-in-20th-over-min:-100-runs&amp;tournament=menst20i\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">higher strike rate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>28 Wickets for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/cricketers\/arshdeep-singh-1125976\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arshdeep Singh<\/a> in in his first over while opening the bowling (first two overs) &#8211; the most in men&#8217;s T20Is. Junaid Siddique and Shaheen Shah Afridi have 27 apiece.<\/p>\n<p>13.57 Economy rate of New Zealand&#8217;s spinners in Nagpur, where they conceded 95 runs in seven overs. It is the first instance of New Zealand&#8217;s spinners conceding an economy of 12 or more in a men&#8217;s T20I <a href=\"https:\/\/stats.espncricinfo.com\/ci\/engine\/stats\/index.html?bowling_pacespin=2;class=3;filter=advanced;groupby=innings;orderby=economy_rate;orderbyad=reverse;qualmin1=36;qualval1=balls;size=200;team=5;template=results;type=bowling\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">where they bowled six or more overs<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2898 Number of balls Abhishek Sharma took to complete 5000 runs in T20 cricket &#8211; the quickest to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428453,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-428452","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cricket","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}