Suryakumar Yadav Equals Virat Kohli’s T20I Record

Suryakumar Yadav played a blazing 28-ball 53-run innings in IND vs AFG T20 World Cup 2024 match on Thursday.

Suryakumar Yadav’s match-winning knock, his Player-of-the-Match award ties him with Virat Kohli for the most such awards in T20I cricket history.

Suryakumar Yadav was awarded his 15th T20I Player of the Match award for his scintillating innings, putting him on par with Indian batting icon Virat Kohli.

List of players with most Player of the match awards in T20Is: Suryakumar Yadav (15), Virat Kohli (15), Virandeep Singh of Malaysia (14), Sikandar Raza of Zimbabwe (14), Mohammad Nabi of Afghanistan (14).

Indian cricket team skipper Rohit Sharma holds the third position with 13 Player of the match accolades.

India (181/8) defeated Afghanistan (134/10) by 47 runs in IND vs AFG T20 World Cup 2024 Super 8 match in Barbados. The ‘Men in Blue’ will next go up against Bangladesh on Saturday (June 22).