Thanks to the excellent innings of Rohit Sharma and Rishabh Pant and the superb bowling of Jasprit Bumrah, Hardik Pandya, Arshdeep Singh, India started the T20 World Cup with a win. India defeated Ireland by 8 wickets in its first match on June 5. In the match held at Nassau County International Cricket Stadium in New York, Ireland gave India a target of just 97 runs to win, which it achieved in 12.2 overs. The Indian team will now play against Pakistan on the same ground on June 9.
In this match, Rohit Sharma played an innings of 52 runs in 37 balls. He retired hurt. His innings included 3 sixes and 4 fours. At the same time, Rishabh Pant remained unbeaten after scoring 36 runs. But by playing this match, Rohit Sharma made many records in his name. Rohit Sharma registered his 43rd win in T20 international cricket as a captain. With this, he equaled Mahendra Singh Dhoni's record. Dhoni also won 43 T20 matches under his captaincy. At the same time, Virat Kohli won in T20 matches. At the same time, Virat Kohli has won 32 matches in T20 International.
Rohit hit 600 sixes in international cricket Rohit has completed 600 sixes in international cricket. He has hit 84 sixes in Tests, 323 in ODIs and 193 in T20s. Overall, the Hitman achieved this milestone in 499 innings. Chris Gayle has 553 sixes in 551 international innings. Shahid Afridi has 476 sixes in 508 innings. Apart from this, Rohit achieved another position in this match. He has completed 1000 runs in T20 World Cup.
Let us tell you that Rohit Sharma achieved another achievement in this match. Rohit now has more than 4000 runs in T20 cricket. He became the player to score 4000 T20 runs in the least number of balls. Rohit completed 4 thousand runs in 2860 balls. At the same time, Virat Kohli achieved this milestone in 2900 balls and Babar Azam in 3079 balls. Kohli has a total of 4038 runs in 118 T20 matches. At the same time, Rohit Sharma now has 4026 runs in 152 T20 matches and Babar Azam has achieved this feat in 119 matches.