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Indian cricket team’s young talented batsman Tilak Verma had performed brilliantly against South Africa. The young batsman scored a brilliant century in the third T20 match of the series played in Johannesburg. On the basis of this century, Tilak Verma made his place in many record lists simultaneously.
Tilak’s brilliant century
Tilak Verma played a tremendous inning in the third match of the 4-match T20 series between India and South Africa. In this match, he scored unbeaten 107 runs in 56 balls with the help of 8 fours and 7 sixes. Tilak Verma has made many records in his name with this innings. This is his first century in T20 international cricket.
Tilak Verma broke many records
The 22-year-old left-handed batsman broke the record of India’s star batsman Shubman Gill by scoring a century and also joined the list of great former Indian batsmen like Sachin Tendulkar and Yuvraj Singh. Tilak Verma scored this century at the age of 22 years and 5 days and became the second youngest Indian batsman to score a T20 International century. At the same time, he became the youngest player to score a century on foreign soil in T20 format.
This record is in the name of Sachin Tendulkar
Sachin Tendulkar holds the record for scoring the youngest Test century for India on foreign soil. This record in ODI is in the name of Yuvraj Singh, after which Tilak Verma became the youngest person to complete a century in T20 International.
Youngest Indian batsman to score a century in T20 International
- Yashasvi Jaiswal vs Nepal – 21 years 279 days
- Tilak Verma vs South Africa – 22 years, 05 days
- Shubman Gill vs New Zealand – 23 years 146 days
- Suresh Raina vs South Africa – 23 years 156 days
- Abhishek Sharma vs Zimbabwe – 23 years 307 days
- KL Rahul vs West Indies – 24 years 131 days
Youngest batsman to score century in all three formats abroad for India
- Test – Sachin Tendulkar (17 years, 107 days)
- ODI- Yuvraj Singh- (22 years, 41 days)
- T20I- Tilak Verma (22 years, 5 days)