Summary
After winning the ODI and T20 series against West Indies, the Indian team now has to face Sri Lanka. Apart from winning the series again, the eyes of the new captain Rohit Sharma will also be on making some records.
After winning the ODI and T20 series against West Indies, the Indian team now has to face Sri Lanka. Team India will play a series of three T20 and two test matches against the Lankan team. Rohit Sharma was made the full-time captain of T20 and ODI at the end of last year. Team India has since won the T20 series against West Indies as well as against New Zealand. Now Rohit’s eyes are on Sri Lanka. Apart from winning the series, Martin Guptill has two records on his target.
Rohit will have a chance to hold the record for most runs as well as most sixes in T20Is. At present, both these records are in the name of New Zealand opener Martin Guptill. Apart from scoring 3299 runs in 112 matches, Guptill has also hit 165 sixes. Talking about Rohit, he has represented India in 122 T20Is. During this, he has hit 154 sixes along with scoring 3263 runs. If Rohit hits 11 sixes in the three-match series, then he will equal Guptill. At the same time, as soon as he hits the 12th six, he will be ahead of Guptill.
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 |
Guptill and Kohli have more runs than Rohit.
Talking about the most runs in T20 Internationals, Rohit will have a chance to leave behind Guptill along with former Indian captain Virat Kohli. Kohli is not playing in the series against Sri Lanka. In such a situation, Rohit will have a golden opportunity to overtake him. Guptill has scored the highest 3299 runs, while Kohli has 3296 runs in 97 matches.
Indian captain Rohit, popularly known as Hitman, has scored 3263 runs. He will have to score a total of 37 runs to get out of both. Ireland’s Paul Stirling is at the fourth position in this order and Aaron Finch of Australia is at the fifth position. Sterling has scored 2758 runs in 100 matches and Finch has scored 2686 runs in 88 matches.
Rohit can break another record of Kohli
Kohli equaled Rohit’s record in the series against West Indies. He had reached equal to Rohit in terms of scoring 50 or more runs in international T20. Kohli and Rohit have done this 30-30 times. Hitman has scored 26 fifties and four centuries. At the same time, Kohli has scored 30 half-centuries. In such a situation, Rohit will have a chance to overtake Kohli in this matter as well.
Highest 50+ scorers in International T20
batsman | Country | 50+ Score |
Virat Kohli | Bharat | 30 |
Rohit Sharma | Bharat | 30 |
Babar Azam | Pakistan | 26 |
Martin Guptill | New Zealand | 22 |
David Warner | Australia | 22 |
India and Sri Lanka series schedule
Sri Lankan team will play three T20 and two test matches on the tour of India. The first T20 match will be played in Lucknow on 24 February. After this, two T20 matches will be played in Dharamsala on 26 and 27 February. The Test series will begin in Mohali. The first match will be played from March 4 to March 8. After this, the second and final Test will be held in Bengaluru from March 12 to 16.
T20 Team: Rohit Sharma (capt), Rituraj Gaikwad, Ishan Kishan (wk), Suryakumar Yadav, Shreyas Iyer, Venkatesh Iyer, Deepak Hooda, Jasprit Bumrah (vc), Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Deepak Chahar, Harshal Patel, Mohammad Siraj, Sanju Samson (wk) , Ravindra Jadeja, Ravi Bishnoi, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav and Avesh Khan.
Expansion
After winning the ODI and T20 series against West Indies, the Indian team now has to face Sri Lanka. Team India will play a series of three T20 and two test matches against the Lankan team. Rohit Sharma was made the full-time captain of T20 and ODI at the end of last year. Team India has since won the T20 series against West Indies as well as against New Zealand. Now Rohit’s eyes are on Sri Lanka. Apart from winning the series, Martin Guptill has two records on his target.
Rohit will have a chance to hold the record for most runs as well as most sixes in T20Is. At present, both these records are in the name of New Zealand opener Martin Guptill. Apart from scoring 3299 runs in 112 matches, Guptill has also hit 165 sixes. Talking about Rohit, he has represented India in 122 T20Is. During this, he has hit 154 sixes along with scoring 3263 runs. If Rohit hits 11 sixes in the three-match series, then he will equal Guptill. At the same time, as soon as he hits the 12th six, he will be ahead of Guptill.
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 |