Hyderabad captain Tilak Varma became the first batter to score three consecutive T20 centuries after opening his Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy campaign with a hundred against Meghalaya at the Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium C on Saturday.
He scored back-to-back hundreds for India during the third and fourth T20I matches of the four-match series against South Africa earlier this month.
In doing so he became only the second Indian to score two consecutive T20I centuries, joining Sanju Samson in the exclusive list.
The performance earned him the Player-of-the-Series award. Moreover, he went up a whopping 69 places in the ICC T20I batting charts following his two centuries and 280 runs for the series against the Proteas.
The rise sees Varma improve to third place overall, behind No.1-ranked T20I batter Travis Head and England’s Phil Salt, and he is now the highest-rated batter from India.