3 records in T20 cricket that could be broken by Suryakumar Yadav in 2023

Undoubtedly, the calendar year of 2022 in cricket belonged to the World's number one T20I batter and star Indian batting sensation Suryakumar Yadav. He finished the year with 1164 runs in 31 matches with an impressive average of 46.56 including two centuries and nine half-centuries to his name. Apart from this, he became the number one batter in the T20I rankings during the eighth edition of the 20-20 World Cup 2022 last year.

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The 31-year-old also registered an outstanding strike rate of 187.44 going out on duck for only two times. Just before the start of the new calendar of 2023 in cricket, he was named as the vice-captain of the Indian T20I team under the captaincy of Hardik Pandya for the ongoing three-match T20I series against Sri Lanka.

With said that and considering the excellence of the Mumbai batter, Here we’ll have a look at the three records that could be broken by him during the year 2023.

Most continuous half-centuries in T20I cricket

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SKY was one of those batters who had three consecutive half-centuries to his name in the T20I cricket last year. He started this streak against Australia in Hyderabad T20I and it ended with two consecutive half-centuries of 50 and 61 runs later against South Africa.

Former New Zealand alongside former Caribbean legend Chris Gayle, Craig Williams, Rayyan Pathan, Gustav Mckean, and Reeza Hendricks collectively owns the World record of most half-centuries in a row. They all have four half-centuries in one go to their names in the shortest format of the game.

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Suryakumar Yadav is scheduled to play a lot of T20I cricket in the calendar year of 2023. If he maintains his brilliant form and scores five back-to-back half-centuries later this year, he will be the only player to do so.

Most number of fours in an inning of T20I

Suryakumar Yadav is famous for his skill of finding minor gaps between field placements. So, it makes things difficult for the opponent teams’ bowlers and the skipper as well to place the field whenever the Indian batting prodigy is batting there. During the previous calendar year, SKY managed to smash 131 fours out which he smashed 14 fours during his remarkable knock of 117 runs Nottingham T20I against England.

Currently, the World record of most four in an inning is on the name of Czech Republic’s batter Dylan Steyn. If he manages to amass a similar sort of knock as the one against England, SKY could be the new world record holder with the most fours in a T20I inning.

New World Record of most centuries in T20Is

Suryakumar Yadav made his Test debut in March 2021 against England during the five-match T20I series. Till now, he has scored two centuries in the quickest format of the game. During the calendar year of 2023, if his golden run with the bat continues, Yadav will join the Indian skipper Rohit Sharma in the list of players with the highest number of T20I centuries in the history of the game.

Apart from that, the veteran of T20I cricket will also have a chance to go beyond Rohit Sharma to score the highest number of T20I centuries and top the all-time list of batters in this record. Rohit has scored four centuries followed by three centuries each from Sabawoon Davizi, Glenn Maxwell, and Colin Munro in the list.