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Rohit Sharma Create World Record: Yesterday, in the match between India and Australia held at Darren Sammy Cricket Ground in St. Lucia, Indian team captain Rohit Sharma created history by playing a brilliant innings of 92 runs. In this match, India defeated Australia by 24 runs. Batting first, India scored 205 runs in 20 overs. In front of which the Australian team collapsed at a score of 181. Rohit Sharma was declared the Player of the Match.
Rohit broke the record
During this match, Rohit Sharma made a record of 4165 runs in T20I cricket. Rohit scored these runs at an average of 32.03 and a strike rate of 140.75. He has the highest number of 5 centuries and 31 half-centuries in this format. Rohit has overtaken Virat Kohli and Babar Azam to become the number-1 batsman in terms of most runs in T20I cricket.
Highest run scorer in T20I cricket
Rohit Sharma – 4165
Babar Azam – 4145
Virat Kohli – 4103
Paul Stirling – 3601
Martin Guptill – 3531
How was the India-Australia match?
Australia won the toss and chose to bowl first. Batting first, the Indian team suffered a major setback in the second over itself. Virat Kohli returned to the pavilion without opening his account. After this, Rohit Sharma played a brilliant innings and scored the fastest half-century in 19 balls. Rohit scored 92 runs in 41 balls with the help of 7 fours and 8 sixes. After 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.
The Australian team started struggling from the beginning to chase the target. David Warner was out after scoring just 6 runs. But then Travis Head along with Mitchell Marsh thrashed the Indian bowlers. India came back in the match by taking a brilliant catch of Marsh by Akshar Patel. Travis Head was out after scoring 76 runs. But Australia could only score 181 runs in 20 overs. Arshdeep Singh took the maximum of 3 wickets from India's side.
Now India will face England in the semi-finals on June 27