Rohit Sharma continued his red-hot form with a sensational unbeaten fifty against Pakistan in the ICC World Cup 2023 match on Saturday, October 14. Indian captain gave India a flying start with a 36-ball fifty while chasing a 192-run target at Ahmedabad's Narendra Modi Stadium and also achieved a huge milestone in ODI cricket.
Indian bowlers pulled off an impressive performance to bowl out their rivals on just 191 runs while batting first. Then Rohit Sharma gave India a sensational start with a first-ball boundary off Shaheen Afridi and went on to smash three maximums to complete 300 sixes in ODI cricket. He became the first Indian cricketer to reach this historic milestone and is now only behind Chris Gayle and Shahid Afridi in the list of most sixes in 50-over international cricket.
Most sixes in ODI cricket:
- Shahid Afridi - 351 sixes in 369 innings
- Chris Gayle - 331 sixes in 294 innings
- Rohit Sharma - 300* sixes in 246 innings
- Sanath Jayasuriya - 270 sixes in 433 innings
- MS Dhoni - 229 sixes 297 innings
Rohit finished his innings with six sixes as he top-scored with 86 runs off 63 balls. Shreyas Iyer also scored an unbeaten fifty to boost India to an easy seven-wicket chase. Rohit is enjoying a sensational run in 2023 in ODIs with 875 runs in 18 innings with the help of two hundreds and seven fifties. He also topped the chart for most sixes in 2023 with 47 maximums after his six areal boundaries against Pakistan.
India Playing XI: Rohit Sharma (c), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul (wk), Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj
Pakistan Playing XI: Abdullah Shafique, Imam-ul-Haq, Babar Azam (c), Mohammad Rizwan (wk), Saud Shakeel, Iftikhar Ahmed, Shadab Khan, Mohammad Nawaz, Hasan Ali, Shaheen Afridi, Haris Rauf
