SMAT – Ashutosh Sharma smashes fifty off 11 balls to interrupt Yuvraj Singh’s report

Ashutosh took the crease on the rating of 131 for 4 with simply 5 overs to go. He then went on to smash 53 off 12 studded with eight sixes and only one 4, which got here via the covers. Ashutosh fell the subsequent ball after reaching his record-breaking half-century and walked again with a shocking strike charge of 441.66. As many as 4 of his sixes sailed over the covers and long-off area, two went over long-on and two extra cleared the leg-side boundary behind sq.. Railways amassed 115 runs in simply the final 5 overs to complete on a commanding 246 for five, and Arunachal Pradesh had been bowled out for 119 in reply, shedding by 127 runs.

Ashutosh, 25, was enjoying his second T20 for Railways and tenth general. He had made his T20 debut approach again in 2018 for Madhya Pradesh and final performed the format in 2019. He has featured in only one 50-over recreation, for MP additionally in 2019, and is but to make his first-class debut.

Yuvraj had held the report for the quickest fifty in T20 cricket general additionally for 16 years earlier than it was damaged simply final month by Dipendra Singh Airee from Nepal towards Mongolia within the Asian Video games in Hangzhou. Yuvraj’s innings in Durban can be finest remembered for his hitting six sixes in an over off Stuart Broad.