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Rohit Sharma: After losing the Test series, a situation like saving the ODI series has arisen for the Indian team. Meanwhile, Team India is playing brilliantly in the first ODI match.
Rohit Sharma: Former Indian team captain Rohit Sharma’s innings of 57 runs against South Africa (SA) is being talked about. Meanwhile, he has reached the top in the list of players who have hit most sixes in ODIs, Rohit achieved this feat in the first ODI match being played against South Africa. Before this match, Rohit was just three sixes away from achieving this feat and in this match, he reached the top by hitting three sixes and leaving Shahid Afridi behind. Let us tell you that Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli made a great partnership against South Africa, King Kohli is still on the pitch after playing a century.
Left behind Shahid Afridi
When Rohit Sharma came to play on the field, he got a lease of life and after that he wreaked havoc on the bowlers. Earlier, Rohit Sharma had also shown brilliant performance on the Australian tour and his performance continues against South Africa also. Let us tell you that former Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi remained on top by scoring 351 centuries in ODIs and Rohit Sharma broke his record by scoring 352 and now he has gone ahead of all the batsmen.
Three sixes celebrated world record
Rohit Sharma equalized Afridi in the 15th over by hitting two consecutive sixes on deep midwicket off spinner Prenelon Subrayan. After this, he made the record of hitting the maximum number of sixes by hitting Marco Yansen’s ball for a six on deep square leg. Let us tell you that Rohit Sharma started his international career in 2007 and achieved this feat in the 270th innings of 278 matches for India. During this time, Virat was moving the score board forward with Kohli and in this innings he played a stormy innings of 57 runs in 51 balls. On the other hand, South Africa won the toss and decided to bowl against India in the first ODI.
Kohli made the bowlers run on the pitch
Apart from this, if we talk about the match, 42 overs have been completed and India’s score has reached 272 runs (at the time of writing) at the loss of 4 wickets. Virat Kohli has just reached the pitch after playing for 135 runs in 117 balls. Virat Kohli was not able to perform much against Australia but against South Africa, he is on fire on the field and till now he has kept the Indian team’s score in a decent position. There are still 8 overs of play left and it remains to be seen how big a score Team India puts on the board against South Africa.
