Rohit Sharma Equals Chris Gayle’s Record of 331 Sixes in ODIs

Rohit Sharma Equals Chris Gayle’s Record of 331 Sixes in ODIs

Indian men’s cricket crew skipper Rohit Sharma scored 35 runs from 20 balls in the third ODI against Sri Lanka on Wednesday (August 7), which was played at the R. Premadasa Arena in Colombo. During his visit to the wrinkle, 37-year-old Rohit pounded six fours and one six. The one most extreme that he hit on the second wad of the fourth over of Indian innings bowled by Maheesh Theekshana assisted him with approaching Chris Gayle’s record of 331 sixes and become the second most noteworthy six-hitter throughout the entire existence of ODI cricket.

Rohit, who made his ODI debut for India on June 23, 2007, against Ireland in Belfast, has 331 sixes to his name in 265 50-over matches played up until this point, while Gayle completed his vocation with 331 sixes in 301 ODIs. Previous Pakistani chief and amazing all-rounder Shahid Afridi tops the rundown of hitters with the most sixes in ODI cricket. During his kidvocation, Afridi played 398 ODIs and scored 351 sixes.

The 35-run thump in the third and last ODI of the series additionally assisted Rohit with turning into the fourth Indian cricketer after Sachin Tendulkar, Virat Kohli, and MS Dhoni to score in excess of 2000 against Sri Lanka in ODIs. Tendulkar completed his profession with 3113 runs in 84 ODIs against Sri Lanka, though Kohli has 2652 runs in 56 ODIs played up to this point.

Previous India skipper MS Dhoni scored 2383 runs in 67 matches against Sri Lanka during his 15-extended ODI profession. Rohit, who has scored two twofold hundreds of years against the Islanders in ODIs, has 2021 races to his name in 55 India-Sri Lanka matches.

Most runs for India against Sri Lanka in ODIs
Sachin Tendulkar, 3113
Virat Kohli, 2652
MS Dhoni, 2383
Rohit Sharma – 2021
Mohammad Azharuddin – 1834

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In spite of Rohit’s significant thump at the top on Wednesday, India neglected to pursue down the objective of 249 runs in the last match of the visit and proceeded to lose the experience by 110 runs. The 110-run win in the third ODI assisted Charith Asalanka with making history and become the first Sri Lankan chief in quite a while to win a respective ODI series against India.

Prior to getting a well known series win before home fans on Wednesday, Sri Lanka last crushed India in a reciprocal series during the India visit through Sri Lanka in 1997 under Sachin Tendulkar’s administration.