CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Suresh Raina became the first Indian player to score 8000 runs in T20. He achieved this feat when he scored 12 runs for UP against Puducherry in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy match in Delhi.

Detailed explanation-2: -Virat Kohli became the first Indian batter to score 10,000 T20 runs last year while West Indies legend Chris Gayle was the first cricketer in the world to reach the five-figure mark in T20 cricket. Rohit Sharma achieved this historic milestone during the match against Punjab Kings (PBKS).

Detailed explanation-3: -The fastest player to 1,000 runs in T20 Internationals is England’s Dawid Malan. He was also at the top of the ICC’s T20I rankings for quite some time. Malan took only 24 innings to reach the milestone. He made his T20I debut in June 2017 and completed 1000 runs in the format in March 2021 against India in Ahmedabad.

Detailed explanation-4: -If a player scores 100 runs in a single inning, it is known as a century in a cricket match. Scoring a century in T20I is way too difficult because of the limited-overs format. The first century of the T20 International format was scored by Chris Gayle against South Africa at the inaugural ICC World Twenty20 in 2007.

Detailed explanation-5: -Indian batter Suryakumar Yadav becomes 1st Indian player to score 1,000 T20 runs.