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Numero Uno: Ro-Hit Reaching to Record on Sixes

The shortest version of the most watched game in India has Rohit Sharma now as Ro-Hitman Sharma reaching par excellence mark.

The new record achieved by the Indian skipper belongs to the shot with maximum number of run. Rohit Sharma is the boss of sixes in the world of cricket.

Rohit Sharma left Martin Guptill behind with his knock against Australia in Nagpur. The eight-over match witnessed Indian superiority over the Team Australia. Now the Indian skipper has hit the chart of top batters with most sixes in T20Is entering to the ladder one.

The India captain Sharma also is the leading run-getter in T20Is with his new advent to the top ranking on the department of sixes. With four sixes in his last game fetched him to the top in the list of six hitters. Now the total number sixes smashed by him has reached to 176.

In this format Martin Guptil with his 172 sixes to his name has been brought down to the second ladder from the top. After Guptil, there is Chris Gayle on the third ladder with his 124 sixes.

Significantly the ex-Indian Skipper Virat Kohli is the second other Indian batter who has scored more than 100 T20I sixes  having 104 sixes currently in the format.

 

Parijat Tripathi

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