Indian Cricket Team’s young sensation Tilak Varma has scripted history in the shortest format of the game. He has become the first and the only batter in the world to slam three successive hundreds in the history of T20 Cricket.
The 22-year-old brought up his third T20 ton versus Meghalaya in the opening fixture of the ongoing 2024-2025 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. This century wasn’t a normal one, it was a record-breaking daddy hundred.The Mumbai Indians star and Hyderabad batter played a magnificent knock of 151 runs in just 66 deliveries, with the help of 10 big maximums and 14 good looking fours.
He reached the milestone in 51 deliveries and his ton meant that Hyderabad posted a massive score of 258 runs on the board, the highest score ever scored by a team in the history of the competition.
Tilak’s good run of form with the bat in recent times will surely make the Mumbai Indians management happy. The five-time IPL winners recently retained the youngsters services ahead of the 2025 IPL Mega-Auction and with Varma slamming three consecutive centuries, it’s looking like a good call made by MI.
With this blistering run of form with the bat in the shortest format of the game, the Southpaw is preparing himself to be Mumbai Indians’ main man with the bat for the foreseeable future.
Tilak Verma’s fiery form with the bat in T20 Cricket
Tilak Varma’s explosive form isn’t just restricted to Domestic T20 Cricket. Earlier in this month, the southpaw slammed two successive tons for the Indian Cricket Team in the recently concluded T20 International series verus South Africa.
He’s only the 2nd Indian batsman, after Sanju Samson, to slam back-to-back centuries in T20 Internationals. His fireworks with the bat made him win the Man-of-the-series award and his performances justify that decision too.
Tilak Varma jumps to the 3rd position in ICC’s T20 International rankings
The young Indian batting sensation has been rewarded by the ICC in a good way for scoring back-to-back tons versus the Proteas and the 22 year old has seen himself making a huge jump in the T20 International batting rankings.
The youngster who was sitting at the 66th rank made a jump of 69 positions to find himself sitting at the 3rd rank behind the duo of Australia’s hard hitting batsman Travis Head and England’s explosive wicket keeper batter Phil Salt.
The Southpaw is currently the highest-ranked Indian batsman in T20 Internationals, with full-time captain Suryakumar Yadav who once held the top spot for a good amount of time dropping to the fourth place following his poor batting displays in the South Africa series.
If Varma manages to maintain his explosive form in the shortest format of the game, then he can seriously go on to become of the greats in the history of the sport and he can make the number three position his own too, which is the batting spot of the now retired legendary Virat Kohli.