India won the third and last match played in Chittagong by a huge margin of 227 runs. Talking about ODI cricket history, it was the third biggest win by Team India. However, despite winning the match, Team India had to lose the series 1-2.
Team India may have lost this series, but Ishan Kishan and Virat Kohli’s innings made many such records in this match, due to which this match became memorable forever and got recorded in the pages of history. We will learn about some such records made in IPL and understand why we should always remember this match.
Ishan scored the fastest double century –
In this match, in the absence of Rohit Sharma, Ishan Kishan got a chance to play in the playing eleven. He grabbed this opportunity with both hands and added a memorable page to his name in Indian cricket. Kishan broke Chris Gayle’s record by scoring 200 runs in just 126 balls.
Ishan Kishan broke Chris Gayle’s record, became the fastest batsman to score a double century
Now the record of scoring the fastest double century is in the name of Ishan Kishan. He played an inning of 210 runs in 131 balls in this match. He hit 24 fours and 10 sixes in his innings.
Ishan became the fourth Indian batsman to score a double century in ODI cricket. Before Kishan, Rohit Sharma, Virender Sehwag and Sachin Tendulkar have scored 200 runs in ODI cricket. Rohit Sharma has done this feat maximum 3 times
Virat Kohli left Ponting behind –
Virat Kohli scored a century in ODI cricket after 2019 in this match. He played an inning of 113 runs off 91 balls. In this innings he hit 11 fours and 2 sixes.
This century of Kohli was 44th in ODI cricket and 72nd century in international cricket and now he has gone ahead of Ricky Ponting in terms of most centuries. Ponting has 71 international centuries to his name.
Virat Kohli has now become the batsman who has scored the most runs on the soil of Bangladesh. He left behind Sri Lankan wicket-keeper batsman Kumar Sangakkara. Kohli now has 1,097 runs to his name. Sangakkara is at number two with 1,045 runs.
Team India’s fourth highest score –
In this match, Team India scored 409 runs losing 8 wickets, which is their fourth highest score in ODI cricket. Team India’s highest score in ODIs is 418 for the loss of 5 wickets, which it made against the West Indies in Indore in 2011.