Fifty or century does not matter…, Rohit Sharma broke Babar-Kohli's record and also won hearts

Rohit Sharma created history: Indian captain Rohit Sharma has created history by playing an explosive innings of 92 runs against Australia in his last match of the T20 World Cup 2024 Super-8. Hitman has now become the new king of T20I cricket. Rohit Sharma has also broken the record of Virat Kohli and Babar Azam in terms of scoring the most runs in T20I cricket. On the basis of this explosive innings of Hitman, India managed to defeat the Kangaroos by 24 runs. Batting first, India set a target of 205 runs in 20 overs. In response, Australia could score only 181 runs. Rohit Sharma received the Player of the Match award for his innings.

After this innings, Rohit Sharma has scored the highest number of runs in T20I cricket, 4165. He has scored these runs at an average of 32.03 and a strike rate of 140.75. Hitman has the highest number of 5 centuries in this format, while he has also scored 31 half-centuries during this period.

In terms of scoring the most runs in T20I cricket, Rohit Sharma has 20 more runs than Babar Azam and 62 more runs than Virat Kohli.

Batsmen with most runs in T20I cricket:

Rohit Sharma – 4165

Babar Azam – 4145

Virat Kohli – 4103

Paul Stirling-3601

Martin Guplitt – 3531

How was the India vs Australia match?

Team India, which came to bat after losing the toss, did not have a good start. Virat Kohli was out for zero runs in the second over. Then the Hitman, in his best form, scored the fastest half-century of this series in 9 balls. Rohit played an explosive innings of 92 runs with the help of 7 fours and 8 skyscraper sixes in 41 balls. Apart from this, Suryakumar Yadav scored 31 runs, Shivam Dubey scored 28 runs and Hardik Pandya scored 27 runs to take the team to a score of 205.