Ishan Kishan entered records books and achieved a milestone that even MS Dhoni couldn’t in international cricket. Kishan scored 61 runs off 24 balls in India’s second match of the ICC T20 World Cup 2026 against Namibia. He amassed his runs at a strike rate of 254.17, hitting 6 fours and 5 sixes in the process.
The Men in Blue reached the 100-run mark in 6.5 overs to amass the fastest 100 in the history of the T20 World Cups. Kishan was dismissed on the first ball of the 8th over, bowled by Gerhard Erasmus.
Before the wicket-keeper batter, Sanju Samson, posted 22 off 8, laced with 3 sixes and a four. He registered a strike rate of 275.00.
Ishan Kishan became the first Indian wicket-keeper to score a fifty in a T20 World Cup match.
MS Dhoni was a part of six T20 World Cups and led India in every T20 global tournament game from 2007 to 2016. India won the T20 World Cup in 2007 and were the runners-up in 2014. Dhoni’s highest score in the T20 World Cups was 45, which he managed against South Africa in the inaugural edition.
Dhoni’s last T20I was against the West Indies in 2016. Windies defeated the Indian team in the semi-final. Rishabh Pant and Dinesh Karthik also played for India in the T20 World Cups, but neither of them struck a fifty.
Ishan was recalled to the T20I side after his consistent performance in domestic cricket. He was out of the team for two years before getting a chance. The southpaw was the second choice wicket-keeper before pipping Sanju Samson to become the designated wicket-keeper.