When it comes to T20I batting, Abhishek Sharma is the modern-day ceiling of how good a batter can be. To think that the left-hander is only 25 years old makes it scary to think that he could achieve when he hits his peak years, which are generally from 26-30 for batters in white-ball cricket.
Abhishek is the top-ranked batter in T20Is and that too by some distance. Currently, he has a career-highest tally of 917 points and no other batter in the top-ten has 850 points. England's Phil Salt, who is at second spot, is at 834 points. This massive gulf in points is also reflective of Abhishek's insane impact in international cricket.
Here are five freak records that define Abhishek's dominance in the shortest format
- 226 players have scored 1000-plus runs in T20Is and Abhishek Sharma's strike rate of 194.74 is the best of them all comfortably
- 320 players average 30-plus in T20Is, of which 63 players have a strike-rate of 150-plus but Abhishek is the only player to have a strike-rate of above 175 and average of 35-plus, while also tallying 1000-plus career runs
- Abhishek is the only player to hit 50 sixes in PowerPlays of T20Is alone
- Abhishek is the fastest to 1000 T20I runs in terms of balls faced
- Nine of Abhishek's fifties in T20Is have come in less than 25 balls, the most by any player