Ishan Kishan broke Sachin Tendulkar’s 29-year-old record by scoring 55 against the West Indies.
Indian opener batsman Ishan Kishan is batting well in the ODI series against West Indies and He scored consecutive half-centuries in the first two matches of the three-match ODI series. In the second match, he scored the highest innings of 55 runs for India and Due to his innings, he broke the record of Sachin Tendulkar in terms of scoring the most runs in the first five innings as an opener batsman for Team India.
Ishan left behind Sachin
Ishan Kishan surpassed Sachin Tendulkar by scoring 55 against the West Indies. As an opener for India, he came first in terms of scoring the most runs in the first five innings of ODIs. Ishan has scored 348 runs in the first five innings as an opener in ODIs. While Sachin played his maiden ODI for India in 1994, he scored 321 runs in the first five innings. At the same time, Shubman Gill is present at number three in this case.
Ishan Kishan opened for India for the first time in ODIs against the West Indies in Ahmedabad on February 6 last year and scored 28 runs. After this, he got a chance to open against Bangladesh after waiting for 10 months In that match, he scored 210 runs in 131 balls and became the youngest and fastest batsman to score a double century in ODI history. After this, in March this year, he opened in the third ODI against Australia and scored only 3 runs. After this, he left Sachin behind by scoring half-centuries in the first and second matches against the West Indies.
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Sachin Tendulkar scored 82, 63, 40, 63 and 78 in his first five matches as an ODI opener. Whereas Ishan has scored 28, 210, 3, 52 and 55 runs in his first five matches. While Shubman Gill scored 33, 64, 43, 98, 82 runs in the first five matches as an ODI opener.
