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Ishan Kishan scored a well-controlled century against Afghanistan at the Ekana Cricket Stadium in Lucknow today, June 17. With another century for India in this match, Shubman Gill and Ishan Kishan, the home team set another record of over 400 runs in the One Day International format.
As a team, the Blue Team players were excellent with the bat; The scorecard says it all. On an individual basis, this match helped Kishan make many records. Since making a comeback into the national cricket team ahead of the T20 World Cup 2026, the Jharkhand cricket team captain has been in great form.
A milestone for Ishan Kishan
While captain Shubman Gill scored 154 runs in 110 balls with the help of twenty-two fours and two sixes at a strike rate of 140.0, Kishan scored 125 runs in 79 balls at a strike rate of 158.23. The keeper-batsman’s innings was adorned with fourteen fours and seven sixes.
Through the knock, Kishan became one of the fastest Indian batsmen to complete 1,000 runs in ODIs. His teammate Shubman Gill is the fastest Indian batsman to do so. He reached this milestone in just 19 innings; Kishan needed 26 runs. In the process, the middle-order batsman broke the records of KL Rahul, Ambati Rayudu and former India captain MS Dhoni. Dhoni and Rayudu completed one thousand ODI runs in 29 innings and KL Rahul did it in 27 innings.
Fastest to 1000 ODI runs by Indians (by innings):
19-Shubman Gill
24-Virat Kohli, Shikhar Dhawan
25- Navjot Singh Sidhu, Shreyas Iyer
26- Ishan Kishan
27- KL Rahul
29 – MS Dhoni, Ambati Rayudu
Record making partnership between Shubman Gill and Kishan
The partnership between Gill and Kishan was also a notable achievement. Together these two batsmen scored 224 runs in 141 balls. In this partnership, the captain himself added 92 runs in 62 balls and Kishan contributed 125 runs facing only 79 balls.
According to statistics, Gill and Kishan’s partnership is now the third highest recorded against Afghanistan in this format. The highest partnership in the record list is 260 runs, which was made by Australia’s Steve Smith and David Warner in Perth in 2015.
Highest partnership for any wicket against Afghanistan in ODI
260 – Steve Smith and David Warner (Australia), Perth, 2015
224 – Hamilton Masakadza and Alexander Raza (Zimbabwe), Bulawayo, 2014
224 – Ishan Kishan and Shubman Gill (India), Lucknow, 2026
Afghanistan bowler who gave away most runs to Kishan
Ishan Kishan scored the most runs against Bilal Sami during his innings of 15 runs. The 27-year-old player scored 34 runs on 15 balls from Sami. He hit four fours and two sixes on the bowler. The southpaw has been amazing since his return.
Afghanistan captain Hashmatullah Shahidi was the second most expensive bowler against the Indian middle-order batsman, scoring 32 runs in 25 balls. Shahidi bowled 13 dot balls against the aggressive batsman, but gave away five fours and one 6. Rashid Khan also gave 23 runs against Ishan Kishan.