{"id":44134,"date":"2026-02-15T19:47:36","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T14:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=44134"},"modified":"2026-02-15T19:48:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T14:18:47","slug":"ishan-kishan-joins-virat-kohli-in-elite-ind-pak-t20i-scoring-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/t20-world-cup\/ishan-kishan-joins-virat-kohli-in-elite-ind-pak-t20i-scoring-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Ishan Kishan joins Virat Kohli in elite Ind\u2013Pak T20I scoring list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ishan Kishan\u2019s 77 against Pakistan in the ICC Men\u2019s T20 World Cup 2026 in Colombo has placed him among the highest individual scorers in India\u2013Pakistan T20 internationals.<\/p>\n<p>The left-hander\u2019s knock at the R. Premadasa Stadium (RPS), Colombo, now stands as the fourth-highest individual score in the history of T20Is between the two sides. His 77 is behind only three higher scores recorded in previous meetings.<\/p>\n<p>The list of highest individual scores in India\u2013Pakistan T20 internationals reads:<\/p>\n<p>82* \u2013 Virat Kohli, Melbourne, 2022<br \/>\n79* \u2013 Mohammad Rizwan, Dubai, 2021<br \/>\n78* \u2013 Virat Kohli, Colombo (RPS), 2012<br \/>\n77 \u2013 Ishan Kishan, Colombo (RPS), 2026<br \/>\n75 \u2013 Gautam Gambhir, Johannesburg, 2007<\/p>\n<p>Kishan\u2019s innings in Colombo places him alongside names such as Virat Kohli, Mohammad Rizwan and Gautam Gambhir, whose performances have defined key contests between the two teams in T20 cricket.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, three of the five highest scores on the list have come in ICC tournaments, underlining the significance of these encounters on the global stage. Kishan\u2019s 77 is also the highest individual score in an India\u2013Pakistan T20I since Kohli\u2019s unbeaten 82 in Melbourne in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ishan Kishan\u2019s 77 against Pakistan in the ICC Men\u2019s T20 World Cup 2026 in Colombo has placed him among the\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4641],"tags":[103,626,1241,3923],"class_list":["post-44134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-t20-world-cup","tag-gautam-gambhir","tag-ishan-kishan","tag-mohammad-rizwan","tag-virat-kohli"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44134"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44136,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44134\/revisions\/44136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}