(Web Desk) – Pakistan skipper Salman Ali Agha has set a strike rate recording during the third T20I match against Sri Lanka in Dambulla.
Agha played a stunning knock, scoring 45 runs off just 12 balls, which included 5 boundaries and 3 sixes.
His strike rate of 375.0 set a new record for the highest strike rate by a T20I captain (minimum 10 balls faced, against Full Member teams), surpassing the previous record held by West Indies’ Kieron Pollard.
Pollard had set the benchmark in 2021, scoring 38 runs off 11 balls against Sri Lanka at a strike rate of 345.5.
Quinton de Kock, Rohit Sharma, and Darren Sammy have also featured in this list, but Salman Ali Agha has now topped it with his explosive innings.
Earlier, Sri Lanka levelled the three-match T20I series against Pakistan after they registered a 14-run victory on Duckworth-Lewis-Stern method (DLS), while defending their 160-run total in a 12-hour rain-hit fixture here at the Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium.
Pakistan had won the first T20I by six wickets, while the second game was washed out without a ball bowled due to persistent rain.