Statsman: Shivam Mavi becomes third Indian bowler to take four wickets on T20I debut

Shivam Mavi joined an elite group of cricketers — Barinder Sran and Pragyan Ojha — when he picked up four wickets on his T20I debut against Sri Lanka in the first T20I in Mumbai.

A great start: Shivam Mavi (centre) celebrates during the first T20I against Sri Lanka in Mumbai. Mavi took four for 22 in his four overs. | Photo Credit: EMMANUAL YOGINI

Mavi in elite club

3 The number of Indian bowlers to claim a four-wicket haul in their T20I debut. India’s debutant paceman, Shivam Mavi, became the latest to achieve this against Sri Lanka in the opening match at the Wankhede Stadium on 3 Jan 2023. For the record, five other bowlers have claimed a three-wicket haul on debut for India.

Three or more wickets by an Indian bowler on T20I debut

Wkts	Runs	Overs	Econ	Inns	Bowler	Opposition	Venue	Date	Result
4	10	4	2.50	1	Barinder Sran	Zimbabwe	Harare	20-Jun-2016	Won
4	21	4	5.25	2	Pragyan Ojha	Bangladesh	Nottingham	6-Jun-2009	Won
4	22	4	5.50	2	Shivam Mavi	Sri Lanka	Mumbai WS	3-Jan-2023	Won
3	9	4	2.25	2	Bhuvneshwar Kumar	Pakistan	Bengaluru	25-Dec-2012	Lost
3	17	4	4.25	2	Axar Patel	Zimbabwe	Harare	17-Jul-2015	Won
3	17	4	4.25	1	Navdeep Saini	West Indies	Lauderhill	3-Aug-2019	Won
3	23	3.3	6.57	2	Jasprit Bumrah	Australia	Adelaide	26-Jan-2016	Won
3	30	4	7.50	2	T. Natarajan	Australia	Canberra	4-Dec-2020	Won

Note: Saini is the only player in the above list to bowl a maiden

2 The number of occasions when the sixth wicket pair or below managed to put on a partnership of 60+ runs in India’s latest T20I series against Sri Lanka. These two partnerships in Mumbai and Pune now occupy the first and third positions among lower-order pairs for India in T20I cricket. And on both occasions, Axar Patel was involved in these stands.

Highest partnerships for the sixth wicket or lower for India in T20I cricket

Runs	Wkt	Batting Pair	Against	Venue	Date	Result	Batting
91	6th	Suryakumar Yadav, Axar Patel	Sri Lanka	Pune	5 Jan 2023	Lost	2nd
70	6th	Virat Kohli, Hardik Pandya	England	Ahmedabad	16 Mar 2021	Lost	1st
68*	6th	Deepak Hooda, Axar Patel	Sri Lanka	Mumbai WS	3 Jan 2023	Won	1st
63*	6th	M. S. Dhoni, Yusuf Pathan	England	Lord’s	14 Jun 2009	Lost	2nd
63*	7th	Dinesh Karthik, Krunal Pandya	New Zealand	Hamilton	10 Feb 2019	Lost	2nd

5 The number of occasions India managed to sneak through a narrow win margin of four or fewer runs in T20I cricket, the recent one being the two-run win over Sri Lanka at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on 3 Jan 2023. Both the one-run victories listed below have come in the World T20 tournament.

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India’s narrowest victory margin by runs in T20Is

Margin of runs	India’s total	Opponent (total)	Venue	Date
1	152/6	South Africa (151/10)	Colombo RPS	2 Oct 2012
1	146/7	Bangladesh (145/9)	Bengaluru	23 Mar 2016
2	162/5	Sri Lanka (160/10)	Mumbai WS	3 Jan 2023
3	138/6	Zimbabwe (135/6)	Harare	22 Jun 2016
4	225/7	Ireland (221/5)	Dublin	28 Jun 2022

6 The number of Indian players to appear in a T20I match for the first time after the age of 31 years. Rahul Tripathi, in Pune, became the latest to join this list. It is no surprise that none of the below mentioned players had a long T20I career. Four of them appeared in only one T20I match of their career, while Stuart Binny managed to appear in three. Tripathi has so far played in two and could perhaps have the longest career in terms of matches among the Indian players who have been listed below.

Oldest to make T20I debut for India

Age	Player	Against	Venue	Date	Result
38y-232d	Rahul Dravid	England	Manchester	31 Aug 2011	Lost
33y-221d	Sachin Tendulkar	South Africa	Johannesburg	1 Dec 2006	Won
31y-309d	Rahul Tripathi	Sri Lanka	Pune	5 Jan 2023	Lost
31y-177d	S. Aravind	South Africa	Dharamsala	2 Oct 2015	Lost
31y-44d	Stuart Binny	Zimbabwe	Harare	17 Jul 2015	Won
31y-39d	M. Kartik	Australia	Mumbai BS	20 Oct 2007	Won

Notes:

*It was the only T20I match of their career for Tendulkar, Dravid, Kartik and Aravind.

*Dravid made 31 in 21 balls with 3 sixes in his only match.

*The Johannesburg match was India’s inaugural T20I match.

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20 The number of balls Sri Lankan captain Dasun Shanaka required to reach his fifty against India in the second T20I in Pune on 5 January 2023. This is now the joint second-quickest fifty by a batter but the quickest by an opponent captain against India in T20Is. Shanaka’s effort is also now the quickest by a Sri Lankan batter in this format.

Quickest to reach an individual T20I fifty against India

Balls	Batter	Run (balls)	For	Venue	Date	Result	Batting#	Batting
19	Cameron Green	52 (21)	Australia	Hyderabad (I)	25-Sep-2022	Lost	1	1st
20	Johnson Charles	79 (33)	West Indies	Lauderhill	27-Aug-2016	Won	1	1st
20	Dasun Shanaka^	56* (22)	Sri Lanka	Pune	5-Jan-2023	Won	6	1st
21	Kumar Sangakkara^+	78 (37)	Sri Lanka	Nagpur	9-Dec-2009	Won	3	1st
21	Litton Das	60 (27)	Bangladesh	Adelaide	2-Nov-2022	Lost	2	2nd
22	Heinrich Klaasen+	69 (30)	South Africa	Centurion	21-Feb-2018	Won	4	2nd
22	Kusal Perera	66 (37)	Sri Lanka	Colombo	6-Mar-2018	Won	3	2nd

^ as captain + as keeper

Quickest to reach an individual T20I fifty for Sri Lanka

Balls	Batter	Run (balls)	Against	Venue	Date	Result	Batting#	Batting
20	Dasun Shanaka^	56* (22)	India	Pune	5-Jan-2023	Won	6	1st
21	Mahela Jayawardene^	65 (27)	Kenya	Johannesburg	14 Sep 2007	Won	4	1st
21	Kumar Sangakkara^+	78 (37)	India	Nagpur	9-Dec-2009	Won	3	1st
22	Kusal Perera	66 (37)	India	Colombo	6-Mar-2018	Won	3	2nd
23	Sanath Jayasuriya	51* (23)	New Zealand	Wellington WS	22-Dec-2006	Won	2	2nd
23	Tillkeratne Dilshan	57 (28)	New Zealand	Colombo RPS	2-Sep-2009	Lost	1	2nd

^ as captain + as keeper

14 The number of sixes hit by the Sri Lankan batters in the Pune T20I match on 5 Jan 2023. This is now the most hit by the side in a T20I match. Meanwhile, Sri Lanka became the ninth side to hit 14 or more sixes against India in a T20I match. As opponents, the West Indies holds the record of hitting the most sixes against India in a T20I match, when its batters hit 21 in Lauderhill on 27 Aug 2016, which enabled the side to win the game by one run.

Most sixes hit by Sri Lanka in a T20I match

6s	Against	Venue	Date	Result	Batting	The six hitters
14	India	Pune	5-Jan-2023	Won	1st	D. Shanaka 6, K. Mendis/C. Asalanka 4
11	Kenya	Johannesburg	14-Sep-2007	Won	1st	J. Mubarak 5, S. Jayasuriya 4, M. Jayawardene 2
10	England	Delhi	26-Mar-2016	Lost	2nd	A. Mathews 5, T. Perera 2, M. Siriwardana/ C. Kapugedara/D. Shanaka 1
10	India	Indore	22-Dec-2017	Lost	2nd	K. Perera 7, U. Tharanga 2, N. Dickwella 1
10	Bangladesh	Colombo RPS	10-Mar-2018	Lost	1st	K. Mendis 5, K. Perera 2, D. Gunathilaka/ U. Tharanga/J. Mendis 1

65 The number of runs scored by Axar Patel in the Pune T20I match while batting at No. 7. As of now, there have been 35 instances of 32 batters managing to make an individual fifty while batting at number seven or lower in T20Is. Axar Patel thus became the first Indian to achieve this in the T20I format.

Highest T20I scores by Indian batters while batting at No. 7 or lower

Runs	Batter	Bat#	Against	Venue	Date	Result
65	Axar Patel	#7	Sri Lanka	Pune	5-Jan-2023	Lost
44*	Ravindra Jadeja	#7	Australia	Canberra	4-Dec-2020	Won
41*	Dinesh Karthik	#7	West Indies	Tarouba	29-Jul-2022	Won
38	M. S. Dhoni	#7	England	Mumbai WS	22-Dec-2012	Lost

3 The number of occasions when two players batting at positions six or lower have made fifties in the same match. This has never occurred in the same innings; however, two opposition batters have managed to do this in T20I cricket.

Two fifties by batters at positions number six or lower in the same T20I match

Batter	Runs	Bat#	For	Venue	Date	Result
Denesh Ramdin+	55*	#6	West Indies	Wellington	15-Jan-2014	NZ won
Luke Ronchi+	51*	#7	New Zealand
Ryan Burl	57*	#6	Zimbabwe	Mirpur	13-Sep-2019	Ban won
Afif Hossain	52	#8	Bangladesh
Dasun Shanaka^	56*	#6	Sri Lanka	Pune	5-Jan-2023	SL won
Axar Patel	65	#7	India

^ as captain + as keeper

5 The number of batters who managed to register three or more centuries in their T20I career. Surya Kumar Yadav in Rajkot on 7 January 2023, became the latest to achieve this in the format. Interestingly, all his three centuries came in a period of fewer than six months. It has taken him only one year and 299 days to make his third three-figure score since making his T20I debut on 14 Mar 2021. Afghanistan-born Sabawoon Davizi, who plays T20Is for the Czech Republic, took two years and 264 days to register his three centuries. However, Davizi achieved his three centuries in just 21 innings, while Yadav took 43 innings and New Zealand’s Colin Munro needed 35 innings.

Batters with three or more T20I centuries

100s	Batter	For	1st 100	2nd 100	3rd 100	4th 100
4	Rohit Sharma	India	106 (Oct 2015)	118 (Dec 2017)	100* (Jul 2018)	111* (Nov 2018)
3	Colin Munro	New Zealand	101 (Jan 2017)	109* (Nov 2017)	104 (Jan 2018)
3	Glenn Maxwell	Australia	145* (Sep 2016)	103* (Feb 2018)	113* (Feb 2019)
3	Sabawoon Davizi	Czech Republic	101 (Oct 2019)	115* (May 2022)	111* (Jul 2022)
3	Suryakumar Yadav	India	117 (Jul 2022)	111* (Nov 2022)	112* (Jan 2023)

Note: month in which the century was achieved is mentioned in parentheses.

All records are correct and updated until 14 January 2023