Suryakumar Yadav cracked whip with blistering 26-ball 68 to help India steamroll Hong Kong by 40 runs as they entered Asia Cup 2022's Super fours. Let's have a look at the list of Indian batters to score most runs in the final over in T20Is.
Suryakumar Yadav scored 19 runs from the final over against West Indies earlier this year.
Deepak Chahar hit Adam Milne for 19 runs including two fours and one six last year.
In 2018, Rohit Sharma hit Carlos Brathwaite for three fours and one six from five balls he faced in the final over.
Suryakumar Yadav went ballistic against Hong Kong in the final over. He hit Haroon Arshad for 26 runs including 4 sixes.
Suryakumar hit a total of 6 sixes in his 26-ball 68. He scored runs at a strike rate of 261.54 to help India post 192/2.
Suryakumar also broke KL Rahul's record during his six-hitting spree. Surya now has 43 sixes in T20Is, most by an Indian batter after 25 T20Is.
India scored 78 runs in slog overs against Hong Kong. This is India's third-highest score in 16-20 overs period.
Suryakumar became the first Indian batter to score 500 or more runs in 2022. He has scored 514 runs from 14 innings at an average of 42.83 including 1 century and 3 half-centuries.