Ishan Kishan slams third successive ODI fifty, joins Vengsarkar, Dhoni in elite list of Indian batters | Cricket News – Act Daily News

NEW DELHI: Young Indian opener Ishan Kishan continued his sensational run on the Caribbean tour by slamming his third successive half-century within the ODI sequence in opposition to West Indies.

The left-handed Kishan has been the one vivid spot in India’s dismal batting efficiency earlier than this match as he scored 52 and 55 respectively within the first two ODIs.
The 25-year-old Kishan received to his sixth ODI fifty off simply 43 balls studded with 5 fours and a pair of sixes. In the method he additionally turned the sixth India batter to attain half-centuries in all of the three matches in bilateral ODI sequence.

Kishan’s fiery knock lastly got here to an finish on 77 off 64 balls when Yannic Cariah struck to offer West Indies a primary breakthrough.
He joined the elite checklist of Kris Srikkanth, Dilip Vengsarkar, Mohammad Azharuddin, MS Dhoni and Shreyas Iyer.
Srikkanth had smashed the three successive fifties in opposition to Sri Lanka in 1982 whereas Vengsarkar and Azharuddin’s achievements additionally got here in opposition to Sri Lanka in 1985 and 1993 respectively.

World Cup-winning skipper Dhoni exhibited his batting prowess throughout the ODI sequence in opposition to Australia in 2019 with three consecutive fifties. Iyer achieved the identical milestone in opposition to New Zealand in 2019.