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Stats - Samson and Tilak show no T20 record is safe in India's brave new world

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283 for 1 - India's score against South Africa in Johannesburg is the fifth-highest total in men's T20Is. This is also India's second-highest total in the format, behind the 297 for 6 against Bangladesh last month in Hyderabad.

3 - Pairs with hundreds in the same men's T20I innings, including that of Sanju Samson and Tilak Varma in Johannesburg. Czech Republic's Sabawoon Davizi and Dylan Steyn, who achieved the feat against Bulgaria in 2022, were the first pair to do it, before Japan's Kendel Kadowaki-Fleming and Lachlan Yamamoto-Lake replicated it against China earlier this year.

3 - 250-plus totals by India are the most by any team in men's T20Is. They surpassed Czech Republic, Japan and Zimbabwe, who have two 250-plus totals each.

India are now only the third team with three 250-plus totals in the men's T20s, after Surrey and Sunrisers Hyderabad.

210* - The stand between Samson and Tilak for the second wicket on Friday was the first-ever double-century partnership for India in T20Is. The previous highest was an unbeaten 190-run stand between Rohit Sharma and Rinku Singh for the fifth wicket against Afghanistan at the start of the year.

It is also only the eighth partnership of 200-plus in men's T20Is, but the first to have come for the second wicket or lower.

23 - Sixes hit by Indian batters on Friday are the joint-third-highest by any team in a men's T20I innings. Zimbabwe smashed 27 sixes against Gambia last month, while Nepal struck 26 against Mongolia in the Asian Games last year. Japan also hit 23 sixes against China earlier this year.

157 - Runs scored by India in the middle overs (7-16) against South Africa. Only one team has scored more runs in the middle overs of a men's T20 innings, where ESPNcricinfo's ball-by-ball data is available - 163 for 1 by Nepal against Mongolia in 2023.

2 - Team totals of 250-plus in men's T20s for the loss of one or no wickets, including India's 283 for 1 on Friday. Japan scored 258 without losing a wicket against China in Mong Kok earlier this year.

It was also only the tenth innings in men's T20Is, where a team batted full 20 overs, losing no more than one wicket.

1 - India's total of 283 is also the highest in South Africa in the T20 format. The previous highest was 271 for 3 by Titans against Knights in Potchefstroom in 2022.

5 - Batters with hundreds in consecutive innings in men's T20Is, including Tilak. Samson also achieved this feat at the start of this series to join the elite list of Gustav Mckeon (2022), Rilee Rossouw (2022) and Phil Salt (2023).

3 - Hundreds for Samson in his previous five T20I innings. He became the first batter to register three hundreds in a calendar year in T20Is. Samson is now among nine men with three or more hundreds in T20Is.

4 - Individual hundreds for India in the four-match series against South Africa - two each by Samson and Tilak. Before this series, no team had more than two individual centuries in a men's T20I series or tournament.