3 Top T20I Batting Performances By Indian Players In 2024

Top T20I batting performances by Indian players in 2024 [Source: @BCCI/x]

Team India enjoyed its best year in T20I cricket by a landslide in 2024, recording 24 wins in 26 matches, including eight in succession during their triumphant 2024 T20 World Cup crusade in the West Indies and the USA. Much of India’s recent T20I success can be attributed to the prolific batting form of some of its leading star attractions.

Here, we take a look back at three of the best individual batting performances recorded by Indian cricketers throughout the year 2024.

Highest T20I Scores By Indians In 2024:

3. Sanju Samson 111 vs Bangladesh, Hyderabad

Sanju Samson 111 vs Bangladesh, Hyderabad [Source: @BCCI/x]

Sanju Samson blasted the first of his three T20I centuries of the year during the course of his 111-run hurricane against Bangladesh at Hyderabad’s Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in October. Samson clattered 11 boundaries and eight scorching sixes against the likes of Taskin Ahmed, Mustafizur Rahman and in-form Bangladeshi spinner Mahedi Hasan as Team India mounted a record 297-6 from 20 overs in the game.

The dashing wicketkeeper-batter shared 173 runs for the second wicket with captain Suryakumar Yadav until the raging opener was dismissed by Rahman in the 14th over of the innings. Samson’s whirlwind knock, coupled by Ravi Bishnoi’s three-fer later in the game ensured Team India walloped Bangladesh by 133 runs to seal the three-match T20I series by a 3-0 margin.

Sanju Samson was fittingly adjudged the ‘Player of the Match’ for his efforts, and his blistering knock in the Hyderabad dead-rubber continues to remain his magnum opus T20I performance to date.

2. Tilak Varma 120* vs South Africa, Johannesburg

Tilak Varma 120* vs South Africa, Johannesburg [Source: @BCCI/x]

Mere days after whacking his maiden T20I century with an unbeaten 107 against South Africa at Centurion in November, young Tilak Varma toppled his own career-best score in the very next game at the iconic Wanderers Stadium in Johannesburg. Batting at number three and arriving to the crease inside the opening powerplay after Abhishek Sharma’s downfall, the dazzling left-hander smothered South Africa’s pace and spin attacks during his 210-run unbeaten partnership with Sanju Samson.

Varma smeared nine boundaries and 10 towering sixes in his exuberant innings to score 120* from just 47 deliveries. Maintaining an astonishing strike rate of 255.31, Varma’s blinder even overshadowed his partner and fellow centurion Sanju Samson as India scaled a monumental 283-1 from 20 overs after winning the toss.

South Africa never challenged India’s total at any stage of the run-chase to fall 135 runs short of their target. Tilak Varma, for his splendid ton and second successive century in the space of just two days, was fittingly rewarded with the ‘Player of the Match’ and the ‘Player of the Series’ awards after India’s 3-1 series triumph over the hosts.

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1. Rohit Sharma 121* vs Afghanistan, Bengaluru

Rohit Sharma 121* vs Afghanistan, Bengaluru [Source: @BCCI/x]

Indian captain and legendary opener Rohit Sharma had a point to prove while going into the third and final T20I of their home series against Afghanistan at Bengaluru’s M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in January 2024. The match, also marking India’s final T20I fixture before the all-important 2024 T20 World Cup in June, was preceded by Sharma securing two successive ducks against the visiting bowlers.

As India slipped to 22-4 in its bid of recording a 3-0 sweep, the ‘Men in Blue’ captain stood up to the occasion and crafted an unbeaten 190-run partnership with half-centurion Rinku Singh. The two blistering ball-strikers went berserk in the final 10 overs of the Indian innings, fetching 151 runs during the phase to blaze their team to 212-4 from 20 overs.

Rohit Sharma himself pounded his career-best score of 121* off just 69 balls with 11 boundaries and eight sixes to headline India’s batting mayhem, registering his record fifth T20I ton in the process. Afghanistan’s run-chase and a couple of Super Overs later, Team India narrowly emerged victorious to take the three-match home series 3-0.

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