New Delhi. Team India under the captaincy of Jasprit Bumrah has taken an unassailable 2-0 lead in the T20 series against Ireland. The Indian team defeated the host team by 33 runs in the second match. In the first match of the series, India won by 2 runs under the Duckworth-Lewis rule. Talking about the second match, the Indian team made a good score of 185 runs for 5 wickets while batting first. Rituraj Gaikwad scored 58 runs, Sanju Samson scored 40 runs and Rinku Singh scored 38 runs. Rinku Singh has hit 23 sixes in the death overs of T20 so far in 2023. No other Indian has hit more sixes than him. In response, the Ireland team could only score 152 runs for 8 wickets in the allotted 20 overs. The third and final match of the series will be played on August 23.
25-year-old Rinku Singh came out to bat for the first time in an international match and was also the player of the match. He scored 38 runs in 21 balls. The strike rate was 181. Hit 2 fours and 3 sixes. After the match, Rinku said that I was confident in my batting and I was trying to use the IPL experience. I was trying to push the innings till the end. He said that I have been playing cricket for 10 years and now the hard work is paying off. I am happy to get the man of the match award batting in the first match in international cricket. After the match, captain Jasprit Bumrah also hugged Rinku Singh.
A strike rate of 200 in the death overs
Talking about the year 2023, Rinku Singh’s strike rate in death overs of T20 is 200, which is great. Rinku has scored 266 runs from 133 balls in 13 innings so far this year. The average has been 38. Meanwhile, he has hit 23 sixes and 16 fours. That means Rinku is hitting more sixes than fours in the last over. Talking about death overs, only Australia’s Tim David has hit more sixes than Rinku this year. David has hit 28 sixes in 22 innings.
Only behind Suryakumar Yadav
UP’s Rinku Singh made a strong start in T20 Internationals. He scored runs at a strike rate of 181. If we look at the record of Indian players in T20 Internationals, Rinku Singh is behind only Suryakumar Yadav in terms of strike rate in the first match. T20 number-1 batsman Surya scored runs at a strike rate of 184 in his first innings of the T20 International. Apart from this, Tilak Verma scored 177 and Ishan Kishan scored runs at a strike rate of 175.
Rinku Singh hit 3 sixes in his innings. He is joint second for the most sixes in the first innings of T20 Internationals. Ishan Kishan has hit the most 4 sixes in debut innings for India. Apart from this, Rinku Singh, Rahul Dravid, Murali Vijay, Suryakumar Yadav and Tilak Verma hit 3 sixes each. Rinku Singh playing for Kolkata Knight Riders in IPL 2023 hit 5 sixes in the last 5 balls of 20 overs to lead the team to a thrilling win against Gujarat Titans. If we look at Rinku Singh’s overall T20 record, so far he has scored 1806 runs in 82 innings at an average of 31. Has scored 10 half-centuries. The strike rate is 142. He played his first T20 match in the year 2014. That is about 9 years ago.
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Tags: Jasprit Bumrah, Rinku Singh, Team India
First published: August 21, 2023, 06:38 IST