Team India
started the England tour with a spectacular win. India beat England by 8
wickets in the first T-20 match played on Tuesday. In this series of 3 matches,
India has taken a 1-0 lead. Hero of the match, was the centurian K.L. Rahul,
but captain Virat Kohli also has a big achievement in his match. Virat Kohli
has become the fastest batsman to score 2000 runs in T20.
Virat scored
20 runs and completed 2000 runs in his 60th match. Kohli has played just 56
innings for this. Prior to Virat, three players have been able to score more
than 2000 runs in the international T20. But Kohli is the fastest to get there.
Before that, New Zealand's Brendon McCullum, Martin Guptill and Pakistan's
Shoaib Malik have made more than 2000 runs in the smallest format of the game.
T20 is the
fastest run...
Fastest 500
runs - KL Rahul (13 innings)
Fastest 1000
runs - Virat Kohli (27 innings)
Fastest 2000
runs - Virat Kohli (56 Innings)
What
happened in the match?
Team India
defeated England by 8 wickets, thanks to Lokesh Rahul's second T20 century and
Kuldeep Yadav's five wicket win in Manchester T20. Virat Brigade has taken a 1-0
lead in the three-match T-20 series. Batting first, the England team, losing 8
wickets in 20 overs, scored 159 runs and set a target of 160 runs to win Team
India.
Rahul's
second Twenty20 century
Rahul scored
an unbeaten 101 not out in 54 balls with 10 fours and five sixes. This is his
second century in T20. He has become the second batsman in India to score two
hundreds in T20
Before that
Rohit has scored two centuries in T20. Rohit scored 32 runs in this match and
shared a 123-run partnership with Rahul for the second wicket. Kuldeep Yadav
was awarded the Man of the Match award for his outstanding performance.
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