Glenn Maxwell equals Rohit Sharma's world record, breaks records with century against India

 

Australia made India taste defeat by 5 wickets in the third T20 International match with the help of Glenn Maxwell's century. Maxwell scored a century in 47 balls in this match. This century came in his 100th T20 International match. He is the first Australian player to play 100 T20 International matches. With this century, he has also made many records in his name. 

Most T20I centuries

4: Glenn Maxwell*

4: Rohit Sharma

3: Suryakumar Yadav

3: Colin Munro

3: Babar Azam

Most T20I centuries

Glenn Maxwell – 4 (92 innings).

Rohit Sharma – 4 (140 innings).

*  In this match, Maxwell played an unbeaten century of 104 runs with the help of 8 fours and 8 sixes in 48 balls. With the help of these 8 sixes, his total number of sixes in T20 cricket has reached 452 (406 matches). He is the second Australian cricketer after Aaron Finch who has achieved this feat. Finch has hit 452 sixes in 382 matches. 

*In terms of scoring the fastest century for Australia, he has defeated Josh English and Finch. Both these players had scored centuries in 47-47 balls. 

Most sixes against a team in T20I

42 - Leslie Dunbar (Serbia) vs Bulgaria

39 - Rohit Sharma (India) vs West Indies 

37 - Glenn Maxwell (Australia) vs India

35 - Aaron Finch (Australia) vs England

35 - Hazratullah Zazai (Afghanistan) vs Ireland 

35 - Nicholas Pooran (West Indies) vs India

Most runs against India in T20I

592 - Nicholas Pooran

554 - Glenn Maxwell

500 - Aaron Finch

475 - Jos Buttler

430 - Dasun Shanaka

429 - Matthew Wade

Batting first in the third T20 International match, India scored a huge score of 222 runs losing 3 wickets in 20 overs. Rituraj Gaikwad scored the highest 123 (57)* runs for India. In this innings he hit 13 fours and 7 sixes. Captain Suryakumar Yadav played innings of 39(29) and Tilak Verma scored 31(24)* runs. Jason Behrendorff, Kane Richardson and Aaron Hardy got one wicket each for Australia. 

Chasing the target, the Australian team won the match by losing 5 wickets in 20 overs and scoring 225 runs. For Australia, Glenn Maxwell played a century inning of 104 (48)* runs. Travis Head contributed 35(18) and captain Matthew Wade contributed 28(16)* runs. Ravi Bishnoi took maximum 2 wickets for India. Akshar Patel, Arshdeep Singh and Avesh Khan took one wicket each.