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After rocking the IPL, Tilak Verma of Mumbai Indians is performing strongly for Team India. Since making his T20 debut against the West Indies, he has scored 30 plus in three consecutive matches. He has also scored his first international T20 half-century in the second T20 match. Now Tilak Verma’s eyes are fixed on breaking the big record of Virat Kohli .
It may be noted that the India team registered a resounding seven-wicket win over the West Indies Cricket Team in the third T20I match on Tuesday, 8 August. Also kept himself alive in the current 5 match series. World’s number-1 T20I batsman Suryakumar Yadav played a blistering 83 off 44 balls. Apart from this, Tilak Verma hit an unbeaten 49 runs.
Tilak Verma will have to score 100 runs in two matches
Please tell that in the current series, Tilak has scored 139 runs in 3 innings at an average of 69.50 and a strike rate of 139.00. Tilak scored 39 runs in the debut match and 51 runs in the second match. With 2 more matches to go, the youngster can break Virat Kohli’s record of most runs in a bilateral T20I series for India.
Virat Kohli holds many records in instant cricket, including the record for scoring the most runs in a career. He scored 231 runs in the 5-match T20I series against England at home in March 2021 at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad with the help of three unbeaten half-centuries.
Highest run scorer for India in 5 match bilateral T20I series
Virat Kohli – 231 against England in March 2021
KL Rahul – 224 against New Zealand in January-February 2020
Ishan Kishan – 206 against South Africa in June 2022
Shreyas Iyer – 153 against New Zealand in January-February 2020
Tilak Verma – 139 against West Indies in August 2023
Apart from Kohli, there are only two other Indian batsmen who have crossed the 200-run mark in T20I series. These include the names of KL Rahul and Ishan Kishan. Now in such a situation, the way Tilak Verma is batting. Seeing him, it seems that he can destroy the record of Virat Kohli.
