Sports Desk, AnyTV, New Delhi
Published by: Rohit Raj
Updated Wed, 23 Feb 2022 09:08 PM IST
Rohit Sharma has been one of the highest run scorers in T20 Internationals over the years. Rohit is currently at the third position among the highest run-scorers. Martin Guptill and Virat Kohli are ahead of them.
Rohit Sharma has been one of the highest run scorers in T20 Internationals over the years. Rohit is currently at the third position among the highest run-scorers. Martin Guptill and Virat Kohli are ahead of them. On Thursday (24 February), when Rohit enters the first match of the three-match series against Sri Lanka, he will be eyeing a record of Pakistan captain Babar Azam.
Teams of India and Sri Lanka will face-off in Lucknow. After this, the remaining two T20 matches will be played in Dharamsala on 26 and 27 February. If Rohit scores 63 runs in the first T20, then he will become the second batsman to score 1000 runs in the shortest innings as a captain. In this case, Rohit will match the Pakistani star Babar. Babar completed 1000 runs in 26 innings as a captain. Rohit has scored 937 runs in 25 innings.
The Pakistani captain broke Kohli’s record for the fastest 1000 runs as a captain. Kohli achieved this feat in 30 innings. Babar touched this figure by playing four innings less than him. Rohit will go into 26 innings as captain. Rohit will also have a chance to leave behind Martin Guptill and Kohli. Guptill has the highest number of 3299 runs. In this case, Kohli is at second position. He has scored 3296 runs. Rohit has 3263 runs to his name. If they score 37 runs in the next match, then they will reach the top in terms of most runs.
Apart from the most runs, Rohit can also become the batsman with the most number of sixes in T20 Internationals. Martin Guptill’s record is on his target. Guptill has hit 165 sixes in 112 matches. At the same time, Rohit has hit 154 sixes in 122 matches. He will be ahead of Guptill as soon as he hits 12 sixes in the T20 series.
Batsmen with most sixes in International T20
player | Country | match | sixes |
Martin Guptill | New Zealand | 112 | 165 |
Rohit Sharma | Bharat | 122 | 154 |
Chris Gayle | West Indies | 79 | 124 |
Eoin Morgan | England | 115 | 120 |
Aaron Finch | Australia | 88 | 113 |
Expansion
Rohit Sharma has been one of the highest run scorers in T20 Internationals over the years. Rohit is currently at the third position among the highest run-scorers. Martin Guptill and Virat Kohli are ahead of them. On Thursday (24 February), when Rohit enters the first match of the three-match series against Sri Lanka, he will be eyeing a record of Pakistan captain Babar Azam.
Teams of India and Sri Lanka will face-off in Lucknow. After this, the remaining two T20 matches will be played in Dharamsala on 26 and 27 February. If Rohit scores 63 runs in the first T20, then he will become the second batsman to score 1000 runs in the shortest innings as a captain. In this case, Rohit will match the Pakistani star Babar. Babar completed 1000 runs in 26 innings as a captain. Rohit has scored 937 runs in 25 innings.
The Pakistani captain broke Kohli’s record for the fastest 1000 runs as a captain. Kohli achieved this feat in 30 innings. Babar touched this figure by playing four innings less than him. Rohit will go into 26 innings as captain.