In the second Twenty20 International of the three-match series, India beat Bangladesh at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi by an overwhelming 86 runs. With one match remaining, they proceeded to win the next three sets to seal the series. The highlight of the event was none other than Nitish Kumar Rewddy, who won Player of the Match for his outstanding performance with the bat and the ball. He achieved this by smashing Rohit Sharma’s enormous record.

Nitish Kumar Reddy Disturbs Huge Record of Rohit Sharma
With four fours and seven massive sixes in an innings, Nitish Kumar Reddy hammered 74 runs off 34 balls. In the process, he broke a huge record to become the player to smash the most sixes in a Twenty20 International match between Bangladesh and India. The previous record was shared by Tilak Varma and Rohit Sharma, who each blasted six sixes in the 2023 Asian Games in Hangzhou and 2019 respectively.

These players have the most sixes in a Twenty20 International match between Bangladesh and India:

Seven (2024) Nitish Kumar Reddy

2019’s Rohit Sharma, 6

Varma Tilak, 6 (2023)

Rohit Sharma, age 5 (2018)

Shreyas Iyer, Level 5, 2019

In T20Is, Nitish Reddy becomes India’s fourth-youngest half-centurion.

After only two games, Nitish Reddy hammered his first T20I half-century. He reached this fifty at the age of only 21 years and 136 days. As a result, he records the fourth-youngest T20I fifty score in Indian history.

The following players are the youngest to score 50 for India in Twenty20 Internationals:

Rohit Sharma, aged 20 years and 143 days

Tilak Varma, aged 20 years, 271 days

36 days to 21 years old: Rishabh Pant

21 years, 136 days— Nitish Reddy

Yashasvi Jaiswal is 21 years, 227 days old.

In a Twenty20 International match, Nitish Reddy becomes the first Indian player to score more than 70 runs and take two wickets.