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Team India captain Rohit Sharma has made a strong start in the ICC T20 World Cup 2024 tournament. Under Rohit’s captaincy, Team India has made a winning start by defeating Ireland. Team India easily completed the challenge of 97 runs for victory by losing 2 wickets. Rohit Sharma became the hero of Team India’s victory. Rohit scored 52 runs. During this innings, Rohit completed 1000 runs in the fourth T20 cricket and T20 World Cup history. Rohit created history during his half-century.
Rohit Sharma has broken the world record. Rohit scored 52 runs in 37 balls against Ireland with the help of 4 fours and 3 sixes. During this, Rohit hit 3 sixes. Rohit completed 600 sixes in international cricket. Rohit became the first batsman to do so. After Rohit, former West Indies batsman Chris Gayle is at the second place in this list. Gayle has hit 553 sixes in international cricket.
Most sixes in international cricket
Martin Guptill: 383 sixes Brendon McCullum: 398 sixes Shahid Afridi: 476 sixes Chris Gayle: 553 sixes Rohit Sharma: 600 sixes
Team India’s playing XI: Rohit Sharma (captain), Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant, Suryakumar Yadav, Shivam Dubey, Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Jasprit Bumrah, Arshdeep Singh and Mohammed Siraj.
Ireland Playing XI: Paul Stirling (captain), Andrew Balbirnie, Lorcan Tucker (wicketkeeper), Harry Tector, Curtis Campher, George Dockrell, Gareth Delaney, Mark Adair, Barry McCarthy, Joshua Little and Benjamin White.
