Sharma, who took over the T20I captaincy after Kohli stepped down, has won 31 out of 37 matches while Kohli has 30 wins in 50 T20I matches.
Former captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni, who has helped India win 41 T20I matches under his captaincy in 72 matches, still tops the list.
On Wednesday, fireworks from Suryakumar Yadav in the last seven overs sealed India’s place in the Super Four of the Asia Cup 2022 with a 40-run win over Hong Kong in a Group A match.
At 94/2 in 13 overs, when KL Rahul’s struggle ended for 36 off 39 balls, Suryakumar entered and completely changed the color of India’s innings. In addition to audacious wrist games with his drives, slashes, scoops and sweeps, sending the ball across the park, he remained unbeaten on 68 off 26 balls, which included six fours and as many sixes. 60 of his 68 runs came across the boundary, scoring at a strike rate of 261.53.
His combative stroke-play made other batsmen on the Indian side look as if they were batting on a very different pitch. While Suryakumar hit 12 fours in his 26-ball innings, all the other Indian batsmen were collectively successful in hitting nine fours in 96 balls.
Suryakumar also shared a partnership of 98 runs in just 42 balls.
Kohli, who scored 59 off 44 balls, hit four and three sixes in his 31st T20I half-century and brought some shots at the end as India posted a challenging 192-2 score of 78 in the last five overs, which was few and far between. Chance at the half-way mark score of 70-1.
Asked to review the match, Rohit was pleased with the batting performance, especially at the back end of the innings. But he felt that the bowling could have been better.
Spinners Yuzvendra Chahal and Ravindra Jadeja combined to reduce Hong Kong to 152-5 in their 20 overs for 97 runs leaked collectively by young fast bowlers Avesh Khan and Arshdeep Singh for just 48 runs.
“We batted very well to start, got a very good score. Came out and bowled well, we could have done a little better with the ball.”
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