Rohit Sharma seems to be a man on a mission as he tore apart the Afghanistan bowling attack in New Delhi on Wednesday. He hit a 30 ball fifty and laid down a solid foundation for the run chase of 273 runs. The Indian captain hit 4 sixes in first forty deliveries. Rohit hit his first six over the cover with a well timed pick up drive against Fazalhaq Farooqi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He followed it with a six into the mid wicket stands. Rohit again followed it up with a huge one against Naveen-ul-Haq before smashing Azmatullah Omarzai with a pull shot over a short ball. Rohit Sharma’s fearless hitting made sure India was 94\/0 in just 10 overs. The Delhi fans saw some world class hitting from the Indian skipper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rohit Sharma broke Chris Gayle\u2019s record for most sixes in international cricket. Rohit Sharma hit 300 sixes in one day international cricket. Only two batsman are ahead of him for most sixes in one day international cricket. Chris Gayle has 331 and Shahid Afridi has hit 351 sixes in his career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rohit Sharma also hold the record for most sixes in T20 cricket 183 which is 9 more than his nearest rival Martin Guptill. Rohit Sharma also reached the milestone for reaching 1000 runs for India in world Cups. He reached the milestone in just 19 innings equaling the world record held by David Warner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rohit went past Sourav Ganguly\u2019s tally of 1006 runs in world cups. He became the fourth indian to go past the four figure mark in one day cricket. Rohit Sharma has been the most consistent performers in World cups. He has the highest number of hundreds scored ever in a single edition of a world cup. He had scored 5 hundreds in the 2019 world cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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