– Vinay Kumar
India defeated Netherlands by a huge margin in the match played against Netherlands in Sydney today. Captain Rohit Sharma also scored a half-century. He scored 53 runs in 39 balls with the help of 4 fours and 3 sixes at a strike rate of 135.9. In this match, he broke a record of former India all-rounder and ‘Sixer King’ Yuvraj Singh and went ahead of him. Now only Chris Gayle is ahead of him in this matter.
Rohit Sharma’s 3 sixes broke Yuvraj Singh’s record today
The history of T20 World Cup shows that Rohit Sharma has become the Indian batsman to hit the most number of sixes in the ICC T20 World Cup. He hit 3 sixes in his innings of 53 runs against the Netherlands on Thursday, 27 October. Including these 3 sixes, a total of 34 sixes have come out of his bat in the T20 World Cup so far. He broke the record of 33 amazing sixes of Yuvraj Singh and went ahead of Yuvraj. Virat Kohli is currently the third Indian batsman in this list with 26 sixes.
Most sixes in T20 World Cup
Records show that West Indies’ super explosive batsman Chris Gayle has hit the most sixes in the T20 World Cup. He has hit 63 sixes in total played 33 matches. Now at the second position is Rohit Sharma, the captain of the Indian team with 34 sixes in 35 matches. It is worth noting that former India all-rounder Yuvraj Singh had hit 33 sixes in 31 matches of T20 World Cup. He is followed by former Australia all-rounder Shane Watson with 31 sixes in 24 matches and eight David Warner with 31 sixes in 32 matches.