Tilak Varma Century IND vs SA: Tilak Verma gave an explosive performance against South Africa and scored his second consecutive century. While batting for Team India, Tilak scored a century in the fourth match of the T20 series. He hit sixes and fours during this innings. Along with Tilak, Sanju Samson also scored a century. Tilak broke a special record of Rohit Sharma in this match.
Tilak came to bat at number three for Team India. Facing 47 balls, he scored unbeaten 120 runs. Tilak hit 10 sixes and 9 fours in this innings. Along with him, Samson also scored a century. Samson scored unbeaten 109 runs. With the help of both of their centuries, India scored 283 runs.
Tilak Verma broke Rohit’s record –
Tilak broke a special record of Rohit. He has overtaken Rohit in terms of making the biggest T20 score for India. Tilak has scored unbeaten 120 runs in this match. Whereas Rohit’s highest score is 118 runs. He scored a century against Sri Lanka in 2017. The record of making the highest T20 score for Team India is in the name of Shubman Gill. Gill had scored unbeaten 126 runs in 2023.
Record of sixes registered in the name of Tilak –
Tilak has equaled a special record of Rohit and Samson. Tilak has equaled both of them in terms of hitting the most number of sixes in a T20 International innings. Rohit and Samson have hit 10 sixes each. Tilak has also done this feat. Suryakumar Yadav is at second place in this list. He had hit 9 sixes against Sri Lanka in 2023.
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A 41-ball TON for him!
His 2⃣nd successive hundred!
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