By Admin 
Last Saturday (04 July) the second T20 was played between India and England, in which 15 year old Vaibhav Suryavanshi made his debut. Vaibhav became the youngest player to debut for India. But in the same match, India’s young batsman Tilak Verma set a record for the youngest age, due to which veteran batsmen like Virat Kohli, Abhishek Sharma, KL Rahul and Rohit Sharma lagged behind.
In fact, Tilak became the youngest batsman for India to touch the mark of 1500 T20 International runs. The thing to note is that Abhishek Sharma had made this record in his name in the first T20 which remained inconclusive due to rain. In the first match, Abhishek became the youngest batsman for India to complete 1500 T20 International runs at the youngest age (25 years 300 days).
Tilak got his name written on this record in the second match of the series. Tilak became the first player to complete 1500 T20 International runs for India at the age of 23 years and 238 days. Tilak did a great job by playing an innings of only 24 runs in the match.
Youngest to score 1500 T20I runs for India
- 23 years 238 days – Tilak Verma
- 25 years 300 days – Abhishek Sharma
- 27 years 143 days – Virat Kohli
- 28 years 230 days – KL Rahul
- 30 years 234 days – Rohit Sharma
- 30 years 290 days – Hardik Pandya
- 31 years 212 days – Suresh Raina
- 32 years 115 days – Suryakumar Yadav
- 33 years 340 days – Shikhar Dhawan
- 37 years 214 days – MS Dhoni
Tilak Verma’s international career
Tilak Verma, who plays white ball cricket for India, has played 5 ODIs and 53 T20 International matches so far in his international career. Batting in 4 innings of ODI, he scored 68 runs, which included 1 half-century. In the remaining 50 innings of T20 International, 1501 runs have been scored from Tilak’s bat. During this period his average was 44.14 and strike rate was 143.49. He has scored 2 centuries and 7 half-centuries, in which the high score was 120*.
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