Indian team’s opener Ishan Kishan batted strongly against Sri Lanka at the Lucknow ground. Ishan Kishan showed a stormy attitude from the beginning and hit three consecutive fours in the third over. Although he was unable to score even more than a strikerate of 100 in the three-match T20I series against West Indies, he had a strikerate of over 150 in the very first innings against Sri Lanka.

Left-handed batsman Ishan Kishan scored the second half-century of his T20 International cricket career in just 30 balls. Till the half-century, 6 fours and 2 sixes came off the bat of Ishan Kishan. At the same time, his strikerate during this period was 166.67. Ishan Kishan scored a half-century in his debut T20 match and after that he did not make a single fifty in 7 innings. So there was a lot of pressure on him.

Not only this, Ishan Kishan also played the biggest innings of his T20 International career. He scored 89 runs in 56 balls with the help of 10 fours and 3 sixes. Earlier, his highest score in T20 International cricket was 56 runs. He scored 56 runs in his T20 International debut against England at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad.

History created for India

Ishan Kishan has become the highest run-scorer for India in an innings of T20 International cricket. In this case, he has left behind Rishabh Pant and MS Dhoni. Ishan Kishan has become the first Indian wicketkeeper to score 89 runs as a wicketkeeper. Earlier the highest score by a wicketkeeper for India in T20I cricket was 65 runs by Rishabh Pant.