The ICC ODI World Cup 2023 witnessed the encounter between two of the unbeaten groups on the showpiece occasion as India and New Zealand locked horns in a fierce encounter.
Team India, led by Rohit Sharma, gained the toss and opted to put New Zealand to bat first because the hosts bundled out the Kiwis for a whole of 273 in 50 overs.
Chasing the rating, Rohit and Shubman Gill got here out to open the innings and handed the staff a good begin because the pair has completed over the course of the match.
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Rohit, who has been in unimaginable contact with some scintillating boundaries and maximums to present for his season report, achieved one more milestone as he went previous the 50 sixers in a calendar 12 months report together with his six off NZ spinner Mitchell Santner.
Rohit turns into simply the third batsman in ODI to register 50 sixers in a calendar 12 months after South African batsman par excellence AB de Villiers, who smashed 58 maximums in the 12 months 2015 and West Indies maverick Chris Gayle, who amassed 56 sixers in the 12 months 2019.
Rohit, who already has 50 sixers to his identify in the continuing 2023 12 months cycle is bound to add a few extra to his tally on the ongoing ICC blue ribbon occasion on house soil.
Rohit additionally climbed to second in the record of most sixers scored by one batsman on the ICC ODI World Cups with 38 maximums. He sits second solely behind Gayle, who has 49 pictures which have cleared the ropes on the prestigious occasion.
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Rohit went previous AB de Villiers, who has 37 sixers on the ODI World Cups, World Cup-winning Australian skipper Ricky Ponting, who has 31, and big-hitting Kiwi Brendon McCullum at 29.
Rohit and Shubman put up a stand of 71 runs for the primary wicket towards the Kiwis through the chase on the HPCA Stadium in Dharamshala, earlier than the skipper was despatched again to the hut by Kiwi pacer Lockie Ferguson, after scoring 46 runs off simply 40 deliveries, together with his 4 fours and as many sixers in the innings.
