Wednesday, October 11, 2023
Indian captain Rohit Sharma arrived at a milestone achievement to turn into the player to score the most number of hundreds of years in World Cups subsequent to scoring a rankling ton against Afghanistan on Wednesday.
Taking on Afghanistan at the Arun Jaitley Arena, the 36-year-old right-hand batsman swindled Afghan bowlers and scored his seventh World Cup ton in only 19 innings of the uber occasion.
Sharma broke individual colleague and veteran Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar's record of most World Cup hundreds as the Expert Blaster scored six tons in 44 World Cup innings.
Besides, the Indian captain additionally turned into the hitter with the most sixes in worldwide cricket generally.
Sharma has totalled a noteworthy 555 maximums in just 473 innings, outperforming the West Indies' unbelievable Chris Gayle, who amassed 553 sixes in 551 innings.
The "Contract killer" flaunted 77 sixes in Test cricket, 296 out of one-day internationals (ODIs) and 182 in T20I cricket. Outstandingly, he holds the record of being the quickest player to arrive at 550 sixes in global cricket.
Notwithstanding, in ODI cricket, Rohit is positioned third in the rundown of players with the most sixes. Pakistan's Shahid Afridi (351 sixes) and Gayle (331 sixes) are the main two players to have a greater number of maximums than the 36-year-old in the 50-over design.
"It was a decent pitch to bat. I was supporting myself to play my normal game," Rohit said subsequent to gathering the player-of-the-match grant.
"It's my obligation to give the group a decent beginning however much as could reasonably be expected. It's something I've done for some time and love," he added.
It should be noticed that batting first, Afghanistan set a 273-run focus for India politeness of a 121-run organization between their captain Hashmatullah Shahidi and Azmatullah Omarzai with the previous contributing 80 runs, and the last 62.
Jasprit Bumrah was the pick of the bowlers for the home side with his phenomenal 4-39 spell in 10 overs while all-rounder Hardik Pandya was the second-most noteworthy wicket-taker with 2 scalps to his name.
