Indian innings witnessed the fifty plus runs partnerships for the first three wickets – 58 runs of the first wicket between G Gambhir and V Sehwag, 50 runs for the second wicket between V Sehwag and MS Dhoni and 80 runs for the third wicket between MS Dhoni and Yuvraj Singh, providing the first occasion of a team producing 50 plus runs partnerships for the first three wickets in a T20I game tanatamounting to a World Record