Abhishek Sharma, the India batter, became an entry in the history books with a scintillating 54-ball 135 on Sunday in the 5th and final T20I of the series against England. The left-handed opening batter has always shown the intent of playing extraordinary innings, and he did that brilliantly at Wankhede this time. Abhishek Sharma’s inspiring knock led India to a massive victory over Jos Buttler’s tourists, and the young opener ended up breaking a plethora of records. One of the biggest records that Abhishek broke was that of the most runs in a T20I series against England for India, which was originally Virat Kohli’s feat.
Abhishek capped off the T20I series with 279 runs from 5 matches, thus outpacing Kohli and claiming the top spot for most runs scored by a batter in any bilateral T20I series involving India and England.
Kohli himself had scored 231 against England in another 5-match series in 2021. In the overall arena for batters for most runs in a T20I series against any opponent, Tilak Varma takes the cake with 280 runs in 4 innings against South Africa last year.
Most runs in a T20I series for India:
280 – Tilak Varma (4 Inns) vs South Africa, 2024
279 – Abhishek Sharma (5 Inns) vs England, 2025
231 – Virat Kohli (5 Inns) vs England, 2021
224 – KL Rahul (5 Inns) vs New Zealand, 2020
Abhishek hammered a record 13 sixes — the most by any Indian batter in a T20I ever — in the 5th T20I along with a handful of seven fours to keep the England bowlers at bay from the hallowed Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai.
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