Ruturaj Gaikwad scored a storming century in the third T20 match against Australia. Rituraj Gaikwad played an innings of 123 runs off 57 balls. He hit 13 fours and 7 sixes in his innings. This is Rituraj Gaikwad’s first century in the T20 format for India. In this century, Rituraj Gaikwad made many records in his name. Ruturaj Gaikwad is India’s second highest scorer in the T20 format. The highest individual score in this format for India was recorded in the name of Shubman Gill. Shubhman Gill played an unbeaten innings of 126 runs against New Zealand.
The special thing about Rituraj Gaikwad’s century was that this batsman scored 22 runs in the first 22 balls i.e. he scored runs at a strike rate of 100 but in the last 35 balls he scored 101 runs. Rituraj Gaikwad scored runs in the last 35 balls at a strike rate of 288.57. With this, Ruturaj Gaikwad becomes the first Indian batsman to score a century in the T20 format against Australia. Earlier, New Zealand’s Brendon McCullum, Sri Lanka’s Tillakaratne Dilshan and Martin Guptill scored centuries against Australia in the T20 format.
Shubman Gill holds the record for the highest individual score in the T20 format for India. Shubhman Gill had played an innings of 126 runs against New Zealand. At the same time, Rituraj Gaikwad is now the second highest individual scorer for India in the T20 format with 123 runs. Virat Kohli is at number three on this list. Virat Kohli had played an innings of 122 runs against Afghanistan. While Rohit Sharma had scored 118 runs against Sri Lanka in Indore in 2022. Suryakumar Yadav had scored 117 runs against England in Nottingham in 2022.
