A month after his match-winning heroics against Pakistan in the Asia Cup final, Tilak Varma will return to action for India in the first T20I against Australia in Canberra on Wednesday. Not just is the young left-hander seeking a sturdy return from injury but he is also on the verge of a huge personal milestone that might see him overtake Rohit Sharma and be level with Suryakumar Yadav in the record books.

Tilak has till now scored 962 runs in 30 T20I matches at a batting average of 53.44 with an excellent strike rate of 149.14, this includes two hundreds and four half-centuries to his credit. He now needs just 38 runs to reach 1,000 runs in T20Is. If he does it in the very first match, he will emerge as the fourth-quickest Indian to do so, leaving behind Rohit Sharma, who had done it in

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