India’s legendary batsman Rohit Sharma has made another great record in his name in the second ODI match against New Zealand. In this match, he played an innings of 23 runs, which included two brilliant sixes. With these sixes, he has become the batsman who has hit the most sixes against New Zealand in ODI cricket. In this matter, he has broken the record of former Pakistani cricketer Shahid Afridi. Afridi has hit 50 sixes in ODI against the Kiwi team in his career. Let us tell you that Rohit could not open his account in the first ODI.
Rohit Sharma equaled the big record
Rohit Sharma has also equaled a world record in this match. He has become the second batsman in the world in ODI history to hit 50 or more sixes against three different teams and has equaled the world record of former Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi in this matter. Rohit Sharma has completed 51 sixes against New Zealand in ODI cricket. With this, the Kiwi team has become the third team against which Rohit has hit 50 or more sixes. Before this, he had hit 93 sixes against Australia and 58 sixes against Sri Lanka.
Rohit has hit 51 sixes against New Zealand
Indian team captain Rohit Sharma has broken a big record of former Pakistan player Shahid Afridi by hitting two sixes in the ODI match against New Zealand. The old record of hitting most sixes in ODI cricket against the Kiwi team was in the name of Shahid Afridi (50 sixes). Before the Wellington ODI, Rohit had 49 sixes in his name against New Zealand, but now with these two new sixes, he has reached first place in the list with a total of 51 sixes. Chris Gayle’s name is at number three in this list. He has hit 45 sixes.
Batsman who has hit most sixes against any team in ODI
- 93 – Rohit Sharma vs Australia
- 85 – Chris Gayle vs England
- 63 – Shahid Afridi vs Sri Lanka
- 58 – Rohit Sharma vs Sri Lanka
- 53 – Sanath Jayasuriya vs Pakistan
- 51 – Shahid Afridi vs India
- 51 – Rohit Sharma vs New Zealand
- 50 – Shahid Afridi vs New Zealand
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