The Men in Blue skipper Rohit Sharma attained a new feat in the T20I format as he surpassed Yuvraj Singh and is now India’s highest six-hitter in T20 World Cup history.
The Indian skipper achieved this milestone when he smashed his third six against the Netherlands on Thursday. Earlier, former India cricketer Yuvraj Singh made a record for the most sixes by an Indian batsman with 33 sixes in his kitty in T20 World Cups.
In the ongoing match against the Netherlands, despite a slow start, Rohit Sharma batted well and went on to score a fifty at Sydney Cricket Ground. He hammered four boundaries and three sixes and ended up scoring 53 off 39 balls.
Virat Kohli and Suryakumar Yadav also amassed fifties and built a 95-run stand for the third wicket. Kohli scored 62 off 44 balls and hit his second consecutive half-century of this tournament. Surya came up with a quick-fire 51 off just 25 balls and India ended up scoring 179/2 in 20 overs.
India Playing XI: KL Rahul, Rohit Sharma(c), Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya, Dinesh Karthik(w), Axar Patel, Ravichandran Ashwin, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohammed Shami, Arshdeep Singh
Netherlands Playing XI: Vikramjit Singh, Max ODowd, Bas de Leede, Colin Ackermann, Tom Cooper, Scott Edwards(w/c), Tim Pringle, Logan van Beek, Shariz Ahmad, Fred Klaassen, Paul van Meekeren