Rohit Sharma has been unable to really set the stage on fire in this T20 World Cup 2024. In a crucial match for Australia, he took their star bowlers to cleaners from the 3rd over and set on course for Indian big score. After winning the toss, Australia elected to field first, trusting the pitch to remain the same till the end of the match.
India lost Virat Kohli for a five ball duck to a disciplined Josh Hazlewood. Immediately, in the next over, Rohit Sharma tore into Mitchell Starc and scored 29 runs with 4 sixes and one four. He continued to slam the star bowlers even though rain interrupted for a tiny bit. He continued to take on Marcus Stoinis, Adam Zampa and even Pat Cummins.
He soon scored 50 runs from 19 balls. Rohit still continued to go against the bowlers and scored 92 runs from just 41 balls. When he looked like scoring a century and even push Indian score beyond 210, 220 he got out to slower fullish deliver by Mitchell Starc. Taking a leaf out of his book, Suryakumar Yadav(31) also kept going after bowlers but fell for a slow wide ball of Starc.
Rohit Sharma’s brilliance helped India reach 205/5 in 20 overs with Shivam Dube(28) and Hardik Pandya(27) contributions. Well, Rohit has become the first batter to hit 200 sixes in T20Is and he even got the record for hitting most number of sixes in an innings with 8. India has been able to hit 15 sixes in total in their innings.