The Indian team played the final match of the five-match T20 series against Australia on November 8 (Sunday) at the Gabba in Brisbane. Australian captain Mitchell Marsh won the toss and opted to bowl first, which meant the Indian team had to bat at the start of the match.
Under the leadership of Suryakumar Yadav, the Indian team got an explosive start thanks to Shubman Gill and Abhishek Sharma. During this time, left-handed batsman Abhishek achieved a notable milestone in T20 Internationals. He completed his 1,000 runs in T20 Internationals.
Remarkably, Abhishek Sharma has now become the fastest batter (in terms of balls faced) to reach a thousand runs in T20 Internationals for a full-member team. Abhishek took 528 balls to score a thousand runs, breaking the record of Indian T20 team captain Suryakumar Yadav, who took 573 balls for the same feat. Additionally, Abhishek is the second fastest Indian in terms of innings to score a thousand runs in T20Is.
Fastest to 1000 T20I Runs (Balls Faced - Full Members):
528 - Abhishek Sharma (India)573 - Suryakumar Yadav (India)599 - Phil Salt (England)604 - Glenn Maxwell (Australia)609 - Andre Russell (West Indies) / Finn Allen (New Zealand)
Fastest to 1000 T20I Runs (Innings - India):
27 - Virat Kohli28 - Abhishek Sharma29 - KL Rahul31 - Suryakumar Yadav40 - Rohit Sharma
In the Gabba T20 match, Abhishek Sharma received two lifelines. In the very first over, Glenn Maxwell dropped Abhishek's catch at mid-off, off Ben Dwarshuis's delivery. Again, in the fourth over, Dwarshuis missed a simple catch at fine leg on Nathan Ellis’s ball.
India's Playing XI at Gabba T20:
Abhishek Sharma, Shubman Gill, Suryakumar Yadav (captain), Rinku Singh, Jitesh Sharma (wicketkeeper), Washington Sundar, Shivam Dube, Axar Patel, Arshdeep Singh, Varun Chakravarthy, Jasprit Bumrah.
Australia's Playing XI at Gabba T20:
Mitchell Marsh (captain), Matthew Short, Josh Inglis (wicketkeeper), Tim David, Josh Philippe, Marcus Stoinis, Glenn Maxwell, Ben Dwarshuis, Xavier Bartlett, Nathan Ellis, and Adam Zampa.
