Aichi-Nagoya, Oct. 1 -- Indian wicketkeeper-batter Ishan Kishan continued his rich run of form in the Asian Games semifinal against Sri Lanka at Japan, overtaking batting icon Virat Kohli's total of seven fifty-plus scores from 2016 and continuing his chase for former skipper Suryakumar Yadav's record of most T20I runs by an Indian in a calendar year.

In a concerning situation for India, when most of their top-order had failed to fire on a challenging surface, Ishan stepped up with a sensational 46-ball 80*, consisting of four boundaries and five sixes, scoring at a strike rate of 173.91.

Ishan has now overtaken Virat's seven fifty-plus scores in 2016 in T20I, registering his eighth fifty-plus score this year. Suryakumar holds the recor...