India vs Bangladesh 3rd T20I Stats Review: Highest team total in T20s and other stats

The threat of rain was looming over the third and final T20I of the series between Team India (IND) and Bangladesh (BAN), in Hyderabad for the entire day. But the rain gods decided to keep the clouds at bay during the match and delivered a box office clash. 

Notably, the hosts won the toss and elected to bat first, and were at it straight away. Opener Abhishek Sharma fell early, but Sanju Samson (111 off 47) and Suryakumar Yadav (75 off 35) tore into the Bangladesh bowling with a flurry of shots all over the ground on a batting-friendly track. Samson even hit five sixes in a single over off Rishad Hossain. After the two had put up 173 in just 11 and a half overs, Riyan Parag (34 off 13) and Hardik Pandya (47 off 18) joined hands to give India a late flourish that saw them put up 297/6. 

Bangladesh never looked like they had a chance in the game. Parvez Hossain Emon got dismissed on the first ball of the run chase and it all fell apart. The visitors kept losing wickets at regular intervals, but Litton Das (42 off 25) and Towhid Hridoy (63* off 42) salvaged some pride for themselves. Most of the damage from Team India's side was done by Ravi Bishnoi (3/30) and Mayank Yadav (2/32) with Varun Chakravarthy also chipping in an economical performance, albeit wicketless.

Meanwhile, here are the most important stats from the 3rd IND vs BAN T20I: 

2 - Sanju Samson became the second Indian player to hit five or more sixes in a single over in T20Is after Yuvraj Singh who famously hit six in an over. 

2 - Sanju Samson reached his hundred off just 40 balls, this was the second-fastest T20I century for India and the fourth-fastest by a player from a full-member nation. The fastest for India is by Rohit Sharma in 35 balls. 

1 - Sanju Samson became the first wicketkeeper to score a T20I century for India. The previous highest was 89 by Ishan Kishan against Sri Lanka in 2022. On the overall list, Samson's 111 is the 6th highest individual score by a keeper in T20Is. 

2 - For an innings of a minimum of 100 runs for India, Samson's strike rate of 236.17 is the second highest.

19 - Sanju Samson's century was the 19th for India in T20Is, the next best by any team is 12 by New Zealand. 

11 - Samson became the 11th player to score a T20I century for India. The next best for any team is 6 each for New Zealand and South Africa. 

3 - Samson's eight sixes in this innings are the joint third-most by an Indian in T20Is. There is just one instance each of an Indian player hitting 10 and 9 sixes in a T20I innings, but there were four instances of 8 sixes before Samson. 

22.84 - Sanju Samson's career batting average in T20Is despite the century. It is the second lowest for India among players who have scored at least one T20I century. The lowest is 22.71 by Abhishek Sharma. Sharma and Samson have the third and fourth lowest averages respectively, among full-member cricketers with at least one century in the form

71 - Number of innings taken for Suryakumar Yadav to score 2,500 T20I runs. By innings taken, he is the fourth-fastest overall, and the second-fastest Indian to the milestone. 

3 - Sanju Samson and Suryakumar Yadav's partnership of 173 is the third-highest for any wicket for India in T20Is. It is also the second-highest partnership for the second wicket by a full-member nation. The highest was 176 between Sanju Samson and Deepak Hooda against Ireland in 2022. 

15.04 - The run rate of the partnership between Samson and Suryakumar Yadav is the highest by a full-member pair for a partnership of a minimum of 150 runs. 

2 - India's total of 297/6 is the second-highest team total not just in T20Is, but in all T20s as well. The record is Nepal's 314 against Mongolia in 2023. India's total is the highest by a full-member nation in T20Is. 

22 - India's 22 sixes in this match are the joint highest by a major cricket-playing nation in a T20I. 

47 - India's 47 boundaries are the highest by a team in a single T20. 

3 - The number of Bangladeshi bowlers who conceded 50 runs or more in this match. The third such instance by a full-member team. Incidentally, each of the previous two was by the West Indies. 

1 - Tanzim Hasan Sakib's 66 runs are the most that a Bangladesh player has conceded in a T20I. 

4 - Mayank Yadav became the fourth Indian bowler to pick a wicket on the first ball of the innings in T20Is. Prior to him, Bhuvneshwar Kumar had achieved the feat thrice while Hardik Pandya and Arshdeep Singh managed it once each. Arshdeep's is the only instance that came when India were bowling first. 

2 - By the number of matches taken to the milestone, Ravi Bishnoi became the joint second-fastest Indian to take 50 T20I wickets. Bishnoi got to the milestone in 33 matches, the same number as Arshdeep while Kuldeep Yadav had achieved the milestone in 30 matches.

3 - This win marked a 10th consecutive win for India in T20Is. This is the third time that India have won 10 or more consecutive T20Is, the only other full member to achieve this landmark even once is Afghanistan.