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Seventh run into history; Gaikwad did what even Virat could not do in T20

India’s young opener Rituraj Gaekwad on the historic achievement in the 4th T20I against Australia. Gaekwad has become the fastest Indian player to complete 4000 runs in the T20 format.

Gaekwad’s pursuit of a breakthrough came after he completed seven runs in the match at the Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh International Stadium in Raipur.

Gaekwad reached the milestone of 4000 runs in the 116th innings of the 121st match. Apart from the Indian national team, the player has only batted for Chennai Super Kings and Maharashtra at the domestic level in T20Is.

Before the fourth T20I against the Aussies, the player was scoring runs at an average of 38.76 and a strike rate of 139.37.

The star has five centuries and 27 fifties in T20. Gaekwad’s last T20 century was at Guwahati’s Barsapara Stadium. It was also the star’s first international T20 century.

Gaekwad scored 490 runs from 16 innings in 18 matches at the international level (before the fourth T20I). Gaekwad has an average of 37.69 and a strike rate of 142.03 at international level.

Meanwhile, Gaikwad is out after scoring 32 runs off 28 balls in Raipur. The player scored at a strike rate of 114.29 including three fours and one six.

India are currently 134 for four after 16 overs. Jitesh Sharma with 19 runs off 11 balls and Rinku Singh with 29 runs off 20 balls are at the crease.

India playing eleven

Yashaswi Jaiswal, Rituraj Gaekwad, Shreyas Iyer, Jitesh Sharma (wicket keeper), Suryakumar Yadav (captain), Rinku Singh, Axar Patel, Deepak Chahar, Ravi Bishnoi, Aathush Khan and Mukesh Kumar.

Australia playing eleven

Josh Phillips, Travis Head, Ben McDermott, Aaron Hardy, Tim David, Matt Short, Matthew Wade (captain, wicketkeeper), Ben Dwarchius, Chris Green, Jason Behrendorff, Tanvir Sangha.

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Superstar Ravi Bishnoi had a brilliant performance in the second match of Australia’s tour of India. Bishnoi created waves at the Greenfield Stadium by testing the Aussie batting line-up with his spin prowess.

Bishnoi took three wickets conceding only 32 runs after bowling four overs. Bishnoi returned Matt Short, Josh Inglis and Tim David.

Bishnoi started by dismissing Matt Short for the first wicket on the fifth ball of the third over. Bishnoi dismissed Short with a clean bowl like in Visakhapatnam T20. Short’s score was 19 runs off 10 balls when he got out.

In the next over, Bishnoi dismissed the dangerous Josh Inglis at the hands of Tilak Verma. After Tilak Verma’s brilliant catch, the Aussies fell to two for 39.

Bishnoi’s last wicket was the crucial wicket of Tim David. Bishnoi returned David, who quickly moved the Aussies scoreboard with 37 runs off 22 balls, to Gaikwad’s hands.

Bishnoi ended his spell with three wickets for 32 runs at a good economy of eight in four overs.

With this, Bishno was able to forget the shame of his poor performance in the last match.

The player conceded 54 runs in four overs in Visakhapatnam T20. With this many bad records came to Bishnoi. Bishnoi holds the infamous record of conceding the second most sixes in a T20I match. Bishnoi conceded six sixes in his spell.

Apart from this, Bishnoi also achieved the dismal achievement of being the third Indian spinner to concede the most runs in a T20I match.

Meanwhile, the Aussies, chasing India’s 236 runs, are at 155 for nine in 17 overs.

Apart from Bishnoi, Prasad Krishna also took three wickets while Axar Patel and Arshdeep Singh. and Mukesh Kumar took a wicket each.

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