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Indian cricket team’s opener Ishan Kishan played an aggressive inning of 61 runs against Namibia cricket team in the 18th match of T-20 World Cup 2026. This proved to be the 8th half-century of his T20 international career. Due to his explosive batting, India scored 86/1 after the powerplay. With this, he became the first Indian wicketkeeper to score a half-century in the history of T20 World Cup. Let’s take a look at his innings and statistics.
Kishan’s innings was strong
Kishan, who came from India to open the innings, looked in good form. He took full notice of JJ Smit who came to bowl the sixth over of the innings and hit 4 consecutive sixes and one four in that over. Meanwhile, he completed his half-century in just 20 balls. He was out after scoring 61 runs in 24 balls. He also hit 6 fours and 5 sixes in his innings.
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Became the first Indian wicketkeeper to score a half-century in the T-20 World Cup.
The T-20 World Cup was played for the first time in 2007. Interestingly, in the history of this tournament, no Indian wicketkeeper had scored a half-century before Kishan. In the T-20 World Cup 2007, Mahendra Singh Dhoni played an inning of 45 runs against South Africa. In the last edition played in 2024, Rishabh Pant scored 42 runs against Pakistan cricket team.
other records
Kishan made these other records
Kishan became the fourth fastest Indian batsman to score a half-century (20 balls) in the history of T20 World Cup. Yuvraj Singh, KL Rahul and Rohit Sharma have done this faster than him. Kishan now became the third player to score a half-century during the powerplay in the T-20 World Cup. Let us tell you that Rohit (51* vs Australia, 2024) and KL Rahul (50 vs Scotland, 2021) had done this.
Kishan’s T20 international career is going great
Kishan has played 38 T-20 international matches so far. In just 38 innings, he has scored 1,092 runs at an average of 29.51. Meanwhile, his strike rate has been 141.26. Apart from 1 century, he has also scored 8 half-centuries with his bat. He has been out in an innings without even opening the account. He started his T20 International career in 2021.
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