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Delhi: The Indian team had to face defeat at the hands of England by 9 wickets on Thursday at Bristol. But, captain Shreyas Iyer scored a brilliant half-century in the match. Iyer played an unbeaten inning of 80 runs. During this time, Iyer broke the 9-year-old record of former South African batsman AB de Villiers for scoring the most runs on English soil as captain. He also made many other records in his name.

Iyer broke de Villiers’ 9 year old record

Iyer scored unbeaten 80 runs in 49 balls in the match. He hit four fours and five sixes in his innings. Earlier, he had played an innings of 68 runs in 47 balls in the first match. Whereas, in the second match, Iyer scored 37 runs in 22 balls. Whereas in the third match, he returned to the pavilion after scoring only five runs.

With this, Iyer made the record of scoring the most runs as a captain in a T20 series on English soil. He broke the 9 year old record of De Villiers. De Villiers had scored 146 runs in 3 matches against England in 2017 with the help of a half-century. At the same time, Iyer has scored 190 runs in four matches so far.

Iyer became the first captain to do so

This was Iyer’s second half-century in the series. Before this, he had also scored a fifty in the first match. With this, he has become the first captain to score two half-centuries in a T20 series on English soil. Apart from this, with 190 runs, Iyer has also become the highest run scorer in the T20 series in England. Earlier this record was in the name of Reeza Hendricks. South African batsman Hendricks had scored 180 runs in the three-match T20 series in England in the year 2022.