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In the ongoing 2nd T20I match between West Indies and India at the Providence Stadium, Guyana, Tilak Varma went on to score his maiden fifty in international cricket. The 20-year-old talented youngster in his second international game smashed 51 runs from just 41 balls and wrote his name in the record books.
Tilak Varma helped India to post a competitive score of 152/7 in this game. Among other Indian batters, only Ishan Kishan (27) and Hardik Pandya (24) managed to cross the 20-run mark while remaining batters like Shubman Gill, Suryakumar Yadav, and Sanju Samson got dismissed for a single-digit score.
Here in this article, we will see who are the youngest batsmen to score a fifty for India in T20Is and more.
Youngest to score a fifty for India in men's T20I:
Rohit Sharma - 20 years & 143 days (vs SA in Durban, 2007)
Tilak Varma - 20 years & 271 days (vs WI in Providence, 2023)
Rishabh Pant - 21 years & 38 days (vs WI in Chennai, 2018)
Tilak Varma is the second youngest batsman to score a fifty for India in the men's T20I. Notably, Tilak Varma has scored 90 runs in the first two games of his career (39 & 51 runs).
Most runs scored by a batsman for India in the first two T20I games:
Tilak Varma - 90
Suryakumar Yadav - 89
Mandeep Singh - 83
