India's young batsman Tilak Varma has broken a record by playing a brilliant match-winning innings in the second T20I match against England on Saturday and has also surpassed Virat Kohli's feat. Tilak played an unbeaten innings of 72 runs in 55 balls at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai and India won against England with two wickets remaining. With this victory, India has taken a 2-0 lead in the five-match series.
Tilak's innings included 5 sixes and 4 fours, taking his current score to 318 without being dismissed in T20Is, the highest for a player representing an ICC full member nation. Tilak's scores in the last four innings have been 107*, 120*, 19* and 72*. With this, he has broken the record of Mark Chapman of New Zealand, who scored 271 runs without being dismissed. Tilak still has a chance to add more runs to the record in the upcoming matches.
Along with former Australian batsmen Aaron Finch and David Warner, India's Shreyas Iyer is the other player in the top 5 list of batsmen who have scored the most runs between two dismissals in the T20I format at the international level. Tilak Varma has also surpassed Virat Kohli's record of 258 runs and became the highest run-scorer in four consecutive T20I innings. The 22-year-old left-hander has scored 318 runs without being dismissed.
The Indian team was in trouble while chasing the target of 166 runs in the second T20I against England. Tilak Varma was at the crease but was losing teammates from the other end. However, he fought till the end and won the match for India with two wickets remaining.