Suryakumar has returned to cricket after recovering from an injury. He proved why he is the T20 king by scoring the fastest half-century for Mumbai in the IPL 2024 against RCB. Not only this, after scoring 31 runs during the match, Surya also completed his 7,000 thousand runs in T20 cricket. He has become the eighth Indian batsman to do so.
The Indian team’s star batsman, Suryakumar Yadav, achieved a gigantic achievement in T20 cricket. After recovering from injury, Surya has completed his 7,000 runs in T20 cricket. He achieved this milestone while playing for the Mumbai Indians (MI) against Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) in the 25th match of the IPL 2024. Surya achieved this feat with the 31st run during the game.
Suryakumar Yadav is the eighth Indian batsman to achieve this feat in T20 cricket. He is behind only Virat Kohli (12,310), Rohit Sharma (11,200 plus), Shikhar Dhawan (9,783), Suresh Raina (8,654), MS Dhoni (7,309), Robin Uthappa (7,272), and KL Rahul (7,159). At the same time, only five other Indian batsmen have more than 6,000 T20 runs in their name.
Watch the highlights here:
The fastest fifty for Mumbai this season
Suryakumar Yadav scored the fastest fifty for Mumbai Indians this season against RCB. Surya completed his fifty in 17 balls. Before getting out, Suryakumar faced 19 balls and played a quick inning of 52 runs with the help of 5 fours and 4 sixes. Surya has registered 3301 IPL runs in his name.
Fastest 50 for MI in IPL (ball faced)
17: Suryakumar Yadav vs RCB, 2024
17: Pollard vs CSK, 2021
16: Ishan Kishan vs SRH, 2021
17: Hardik Pandya vs KKR, 2019
17: Kishan vs KKR, 2018
17: Pollard vs KKR, 2016
Akashdeep spells his expensive over
Suryakumar, who was out without opening the account against Delhi, thrashed the RCB bowlers. Surya targeted RCB fast bowler Akashdeep. In the over, Akashdeep brought the 11th over for RCB, and Surya took 22 runs with one four and three sixes.
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