At just 24, the young Punjab batsman is rewriting record books, showcasing his aggressive yet calculated approach to the game.

In a format as fickle as T20 cricket in which a batter is destined for more failures than success, India's newest power-hitter Abhishek Sharma has learnt quite early that self-belief and fearlessness

Opener Abhishek Sharma, who hammered a 54-ball 135 and claimed 2 wickets for three runs to help India thrash England by 150 runs in the fifth and final T20I, said his mentor Yuvraj Singh would have been really happy with his knock as he batted till the end of the innings,

England captain Jos Buttler has heaped high praise on Abhishek Sharma for smashing a whirlwind 54-ball 135 in India's 150-run win in the fifth T20I here, describing the record knock as one of the finest examples of “clean ball striking”.

Abhishek Sharma bolted his way through a quality English seam attack to India's second-fastest T20I fifty and hundred, in 17 and 37 deliveries respectively while also dominating the boundary-hitting charts.