India Break Pakistan’s Six-Yr Previous World Document, Turn out to be First Staff In World To Have Win Proportion Increased Than 90 In T20Is In A Calendar Yr

The Indian cricket workforce gained their final T20I of 2024 by an enormous margin of 135 runs on Friday (November 15) in opposition to South Africa on the New Wanderers Stadium in Johannesburg to seal a 3-1 collection victory in opposition to the Proteas to finish a outstanding yr within the shortest format of the sport.

Whereas the Males in Blue’s triumph within the 2024 T20 World Cup underneath Rohit Sharma‘s captaincy will stay lengthy within the reminiscence, the workforce had been almost flawless within the format throughout the yr even after Suryakumar Yadav was appointed full-time captain in July.

India performed a complete of 26 T20Is in 2024 and gained 24 of them with solely two defeats. They ended the yr with a shocking win proportion of 92.31. They misplaced one match within the five-match T20I collection in opposition to Zimbabwe, and the second defeat got here within the second T20I in opposition to South Africa.

India Breaks Pakistan’s Huge World Document

As per EspnCricinfo, The outstanding yr noticed India create an enormous world file and turn out to be the primary workforce on the planet to complete a yr with a win proportion of greater than 90 in T20Is after taking part in greater than 15 matches. The world champions broke a file set by Pakistan in 2018.

Fairly extremely, India’s beautiful yr is simply second in all types of T20 cricket internationally, with solely Tamil Nadu (93.75%) bettering them. Karnataka (91.67% in 2019) are the one different workforce within the globe to complete a yr with a win proportion above 90.

Highest Win% In A Yr In T20Is (Minimal 15 Matches Performed)

India’s Wonderful 2024 In T20Is

India began the yr with a 3-0 victory over Afghanistan at residence earlier than profitable all seven video games they performed on the T20 World Cup. A second-string workforce led by Shubman Gill beat Zimbabe 4-1 in a five-match collection earlier than back-to-back 3-0 victories away to Sri Lanka and residential to Bangladesh earlier than ending the yr with a 3-1 victory over South Africa.

Two wins (Afghanistan and Sri Lanka) got here in a Tremendous Over. India additionally registered two of the 5 highest T20I scores in historical past with a complete of 297-6 in opposition to Bangladesh at Hyderabad and 283-1 in opposition to South Africa in Johannesburg. These are additionally two highest scores in T20I between two full member nations.