Sahibzada Farhan Breaks Abhishek Sharma's Record During 3-Match T20I Series Against Sri Lanka

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Sahibzada Farhan Breaks Abhishek Sharma's Record During 3-Match T20I Series Against Sri Lanka

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Last Updated: October 14, 2026, 10:00 IST

In the home series against Sri Lanka, Farhan opened the innings for the Men in Green in all three matches and scored a half-century in each one.

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Sahibzada Farhan breaks Abishek Sharma's record during 3-match T20I series against Sri Lanka. (Picture Credit: AP)

Sahibzada Farhan led Pakistan in a three-match T20I series against Sri Lanka and helped them secure a 2-1 series win. Under Farhan’s leadership, Pakistan crushed the visitors in the first two 20-over matches at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium before suffering a humiliating eight-wicket defeat in the third match on Tuesday (October 13).

In the home series against Sri Lanka, Farhan opened the innings for the Men in Green in all three matches and scored a half-century in each one.

He scored 89 runs off 53 balls in the series opener and followed it up with knocks of 73 and 76 in the next two matches. Farhan finished his maiden series as Pakistan’s full-time T20I captain with a total of 238 runs and it also helped him break Abhishek Sharma’s record for the most runs by a player from a full-member nation in a three-match T20I series.

Most runs in a three-match T20I series (players from full-member teams)

PLAYER COUNTRY MATCHES RUNS AGAINST VENUE YEAR Sahibzada Farhan Pakistan 3 238 Sri Lanka Pakistan 2026 Abhishek Sharma India 3 229 Afghanistan India 2026 Colin Munro New Zealand 3 223 West Indies New Zealand 2017-18 David Warner Australia 3 217 Sri Lanka Australia 2019 Hazratullah Zazai Afghanistan 3 204 Ireland India 2019 Shreyas Iyer India 3 204 Sri Lanka India 2022 Mohammad Rizwan Pakistan 3 203 West Indies Pakistan 2021

Abhishek, India’s first-choice opening batter in T20Is, played three matches against Afghanistan in Delhi last month and amassed a total of 229 runs.

The record for scoring the most runs in a three-match T20I series belongs to Spain’s Mohammad Ihsan. Ihsan played three matches against Croatia in December 2025 and scored 283 runs. He is followed by Austria’s Karanbir Singh, who scored 260 runs in three T20Is against Hungary earlier this year.

Farhan’s three half-centuries in the home series against Sri Lanka also helped him join Virat Kohli on an elite list of players. The right-handed batter became the first Pakistani and the eighth player overall to score 50 or more runs in all three matches of a bilateral T20I series.

Most 50-plus scores in a three-match T20I series

PLAYER COUNTRY MATCHES RUNS 100/50 AGAINST YEAR Virat Kohli India 3 199 0/3 Australia 2016 Colin Munro New Zealand 3 223 1/2 West Indies 2017 David Warner Australia 3 217 1/2 Sri Lanka 2019 Nicholas Pooran West Indies 3 184 0/3 India 2022 Shreyas Iyer India 3 204 0/3 Sri Lanka 2022 Reeza Hendricks South Africa 3 180 0/3 England 2022 Ibrahim Zadran Afghanistan 3 169 0/3 Zimbabwe 2025 Sahibzada Farhan Pakistan 3 238 0/3 Sri Lanka 2026

Former India captain Virat Kohli was the first player in the world to score more than 50 runs in all three matches of a T20I series. He achieved the feat against Australia in January 2016.

After Kohli, Colin Munro, David Warner, Nicholas Pooran, Shreyas Iyer, Reeza Hendricks and Ibrahim Zadran also achieved the same feat.

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Quick Answers Powered by Ask News18 What record did Sahibzada Farhan break during the T20I series against Sri Lanka? Sahibzada Farhan scored a total of 238 runs across three matches, breaking Abhishek Sharma's record for the most runs by a player from a full-member nation in a three-match T20I series. How many runs did Sahibzada Farhan score in each match of the series against Sri Lanka? Farhan scored a half-century in all three games, registering knocks of 89 runs off 53 balls in the opener, followed by 73 and 76 runs in the second and third matches. Which elite list did Sahibzada Farhan join after scoring half-centuries in all three matches? Farhan joined Virat Kohli and other players as the eighth player overall, and the first Pakistani, to score 50 or more runs in every match of a bilateral T20I series. Powered by Ask News18

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