IND vs WI: Rohit Sharma sets new record, beats Shahid Afridi

IND vs. WI Rohit Sharma: The T20 series being played between India and the West Indies has ended. The Indian team won four out of five matches with the West Indies winning one match. In this way, India has won the series 4-1. Previously, the India team had also won three out of three matches in the One Day Series. Captain Rohit Sharma himself did not play in the last game of the series as the Indian team had already won the series. In the last match, Hardik Pandya played the responsibility of the captaincy and eventually also led the Indian team to victory under his captaincy. Captain Rohit Sharma made a new record in the fourth match of the series. Rohit Sharma has now become the second batsman to achieve the most sixes in international cricket. He left Shahid Afridi of Pakistan behind. However, West Indies’ Chris Gayle is still busy at number one.

33 runs 16 balls in game 4 against West Indies

In the fourth game of the series played against the West Indies, captain Rohit Sharma played a fast inning of 33 runs on 16 balls. During this he hit three sixes and two fours. With this, he left Shahid Afridi behind. The record for hitting the most sixes in international cricket is held by Chris Gayle who has hit 553 sixes. After this, now Rohit Sharma has reached number two. In his name, 477 sixes have been registered. With Rohit Sharma reaching number two, Shahid Afridi has slipped to number three. He has 476 sixes to his name. In this case, New Zealander Brendon McCullum is at number four, who has 398 sixes. Martin Guptill from New Zealand is also at number five, who has 379 sixes. In all these top 5 players, only Rohit Sharma and Martin Guptill are playing cricket at the moment, all other players have announced their retirement from international cricket.

Rohit Sharma has so far put 443 sixes in T20

Talking about all three formats i.e. One Day, Test and T20, Rohit Sharma has hit the most sixes in ODI, he has scored a total of 250 sixes in 233 ODI matches. At the same time, in 132 T20 matches, he now has 163 sixes. Speaking of Test matches, he has hit 64 sixes in 45 Test matches. By the way, if you add up all the T20 matches, then Rohit Sharma has hit 443 sixes in 391 T20 matches. This also includes IPL. Chris Gayle is still way ahead of Rohit Sharma, it will be interesting to see if Rohit Sharma manages to get past Chris Gayle or not.