Team India skipper Rohit Sharma grew to become the first cricketer in historical past to smash 600 sixes in international cricket throughout his 52-run knock towards Ireland in his aspect’s opening recreation of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024 in New York. Rohit required three sixes to get to the historic milestone earlier than the sport and after a watchful begin on a tough floor on the Nassau County Stadium, the Indian captain obtained into his personal and went after the Irish bowling assault.
Along with that world report, Rohit additionally obtain a couple of extra as he grew to become solely the third batter in males’s T20Is to rating 4,000 runs in T20Is. That 52 additionally helped Rohit to get to 1,000-run mark in the T20 World Cup as he grew to become the third batter in that listing too, behind Mahela Jayawardene and Virat Kohli. This was Rohit’s tenth 50-plus rating in T20 World Cup, as he’s now second on the listing behind Kohli (14). Rohit surpassed Chris Gayle, with whom he was tied on with 9 fifty-plus scores in the match.
Gayle can also be behind Rohit on the six-hitting listing with 553 sixes to his identify throughout all of the codecs.
Most sixes in international cricketÂ
600* – Rohit Sharma (India)
553 – Chris Gayle (West Indies)
476 – Shahid Afridi (Pakistan)
398 – Brendon McCullum (New Zealand)
Most runs in T20 World CupÂ
1142 runs (26 innings) – Virat Kohli (India)
1016 runs (31 innings) – Mahela Jayawardene (Sri Lanka)
1015* runs (37 innings) – Rohit Sharma (India)
965 runs (31 innings) – Chris Gayle (West Indies)
Most runs in T20Is (males’s)
4038 runs – Virat Kohli (110 innings)
4026 runs – Rohit Sharma (144 innings)
4023 runs – Babar Azam (112 innings)
As for the sport, India beat Ireland comprehensively by 8 wickets, chasing down the goal of 97 runs in 12.2 overs. Hardik Pandya, Arshdeep Singh and Jasprit Bumrah contributed because the Indian bowling division was on the cash on a wicket that was aiding the bowlers.
