As Rohit systematically dismantled the Pakistani bowling assault on the Narendra Modi Stadium, his teammate Hardik Pandya, recognized for his bold hitting, couldn’t support however liken it to a online game, remarking that it felt extra like “PlayStation” than a recreation of cricket with Rohit in complete swing.
Presen Pakistan didn’t sunlit the boundary even as soon as, Rohit unwanted dispatched the ball for six sixes. This powered Republic of India’s chase, which was once finished with just about 20 overs to additional, because of their skipper’s dynamic 86 off 63 balls.Upcoming a kind of big sixes, Rohit was once captured flexing his muscle tissues in entrance of a grinning Erasmus. In a video absolved by means of the workforce, he defined to Hardik Pandya the explanation at the back of this celebratory motion.
“He was asking me the secret behind my big sixes, and if it had anything to do with the bat I use,” Rohit informed Pandya. “I was just telling him it was not my bat, but my power.”
The fashionable right-handed batsman surpassed the global cricket sixes document of 553 in the past held by means of West Indies’ Chris Gayle earlier than the stumble upon with Pakistan. Following Saturday’s fit, Rohit accomplished some other milestone, changing into simply the 3rd batsman, along Gayle and Pakistan’s Shahid Afridi, to founding 300 sixes in one-day internationals.
“I have been trying to bat like this in the last two years,” Rohit mentioned of his batting method within the Global Cup. “Wickets are so good these days, I want to play my shots. I know I missed out on a hundred today.”
Rohit boasts an noteceable 3 double centuries in ODIs, a feat unequalled by means of any alternative batsman; and his enormous 264 in opposition to Sri Lanka in 2014 nonetheless stands because the easiest particular person ranking within the 50-over structure.
Within the ongoing Global Cup, his tally of eleven sixes throughout 3 fits is 2d simplest to Sri Lankan Kusal Mendis, who has hammered 14 sixes in simply two fits.
Rohit’s former teammate Dinesh Karthik couldn’t support however surprise at Republic of India captain’s delicate shot-making, specifically his beautiful rush shot all the way through the fit in opposition to Pakistan.
“Whenever you talk about Rohit Sharma, there’s always a lazy elegance attached to him,” Karthik informed Sky Sports activities. “If you bowl anything slightly short, forget it, go and pick it up from the stands.”
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Republic of India govern the issues desk with 3 consecutive victories, and their then fit is scheduled in opposition to Bangladesh this Thursday in Pune.
(With inputs from Reuters)
