Indian batsman and T20I vice-captain Tilak Varma After his unbeaten half-century against Zimbabwe in the second T20I on Saturday, he moved up the list of India’s highest run-scorers in T20 Internationals.Tilak scored 60 runs off 29 balls, hitting 5 fours and 3 sixes at a strike rate of 206.90. A knock on the door helped him pass. MS Dhoni, Suresh Raina and teammates Ishan Kishan Became India’s seventh highest run-scorer in T20Is.The left-hander currently has 1,634 runs in 58 T20Is and 55 innings at an average of 44.16 and a strike rate of 145.37. His record includes two centuries, nine fifties and a highest score of 120 not out.Tilak surpassed Dhoni, who finished with 1,617 runs in 98 T20I games at an average of 37.60, a strike rate of 126.13 and two fifties.
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He is also ahead of Raina, who has scored 1,605 runs in 78 games at an average of 29.18 and a strike rate of 134.87, including one fiftieth.India’s leading run-scorers in T20Is remain Rohit Sharma (4,231 runs), Virat Kohli (4,188 runs) and Suryakumar Yadav (3,272 runs).Tilak has scored 451 runs in 18 T20I games this year at an average of 34.69 and a strike rate of nearly 149. He has scored three fifties and scored an unbeaten 60 against Zimbabwe, his highest score of the year.Earlier in the game, Zimbabwe won the toss and elected to field.India’s Abhishek Sharma scored 8 runs off 9 balls and Vaibhav Sooryavanshi scored 20 runs off 9 balls before Ishan Kishan and captain Shreyas Iyer took three wickets for the third wicket.Iyer scored 25 off 20 balls with 4 boundaries before getting out. Kishan then teamed up with Tilak to score 94 and ended up with 81 off 44 balls, hitting 9 fours and 2 sixes.India managed a record of 219/5 in 20 matches.For Zimbabwe, Blessing Muzarabani took 1/36 in four overs while Newman Nyamhuri took 1/25 in three overs.
