IND vs WI 4th T20I: Team India achieves new record in Hyderabad

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In the fourth T20I match against the West Indies, Team India suffered a loss by 24 runs at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad.

Despite the loss, the “Men in Blue” achieved a new milestone. India became the second team to complete 2000 sixes as a unit in the shortest format of the game. The side reached the milestone in 297 matches.

West Indies is the first team to accomplish the feat with 2026 sixes in 259 matches.

New Zealand (1,585), Pakistan (1,507) and South Africa (1,407) hold other spots in the top five.

IND vs WI 4th T20I: Sanju Samson’s records

Additionally, Team India’s wicketkeeper-batsman Sanju Samson scored 56 runs off 23 deliveries. His knock was laced with six boundaries and four maximums.

With this, he became the sixth Indian batsman to register 100 sixes in the shortest format of the game.

Currently, Samson has 102 maximums to his name in 76 T20I appearances for the “Men in Blue”.

IND vs WI 4th T20I: Shai Hope’s records

On the other hand, the West Indies’ skipper Shai Hope also registered an unbeaten ton and achieved several feats.

He delivered a stunning knock of an unbeaten 102 runs off just 50 deliveries. His knock was laced with four boundaries and nine maximums.

He became the fourth West Indies’ batsman to complete 2000 runs in the shortest format of the game. Before him, Rovman Powell (2400), Nicholas Pooran (2275) and Brandon King (2028) have achieved the feat.

Now in 74 T20Is, the 32-year-old cricketer has made 2,004 runs at an average of 33.40 and a strike rate of 141.82, with three centuries and 13 fifties.

Riding on his century, Hope has overtaken Chris Gayle and Evin Lewis (two centuries each) for most T20I tons by a Caribbean batsman.

He also joined Phil Salt, Sanju Samson, Tilak Varma, and Mohammad Ihsan as the fifth batsman to smash two T20I centuries in a bilateral series.

Hope is also level with Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, and Sahibzada Farhan for the most fifty-plus scores (three each) in a bilateral series among the Test-playing nations.

The Barbados-born cricketer is also sharing the top spot with Gayle for the most fifty-plus scores for the Caribbean side in T20Is, with 16 half-centuries each.

(With Inputs from Agencies)

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