Rohit Sharma breaks Suresh Raina’s record, becomes leading six-hitter in Twenty20 cricket

Rohit also equalled Australia's Brad Hodge and former New Zealand skipper Brendon McCullum's record in terms of fifty-plus scores

By: Aakash Biswas |
November 2, 2017 6:00 pm

Rohit Sharma has created a new and unique record while batting against New Zealand in the first T20I at the Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium in Delhi on November 1. The star Indian opener along with Shikhar Dhawan, not only edged past Virender Sehwag-Gautam Gambhir’s highest opening stand for India in T20Is but have also surpassed Suresh Raina in terms of the number of sixes. The Indian vice-captain hit 4 humongous sixes during his extraordinary 80-run inning against New Zeland and became the leading six-hitter among Indians in Twenty20 cricket with 268 sixes.

Rohit has beaten Suresh Raina who has hit 265 sixes in the quickest format of the game. Both the Indian batsmen have batted in a total of 245 T20 matches, however, Rohit is now leading the list. After Rohit and Raina, the table includes the names of big hitters like Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Virat Kohli, Yuvraj Singh and Yusuf Pathan. However, Raina still remains the highest run-scorer in T20s.

Sl. No	Player Name	Matches	Inning	Runs	Sixes
1	Rohit Sharma	257	245	6650	268
2	Suresh Raina	259	245	6872	265
3	Yuvraj Singh	206	193	4413	244
4	MS Dhoni	269	241	5365	226
5	Yusuf Pathan	232	206	4301	221
6	Virat Kohli	224	211	6990	217

Rohit also equalled Australia’s Brad Hodge and former New Zealand skipper Brendon McCullum’s record of the number of fifty-plus scores. The half-century he scored in the previous game was his 12th and in T20Is he has exactly 50 fifty-plus scores. He now stands 5th in the list which is currently led by Chris Gayle with 83 fifty-plus scores.

Sl. No	Player Name	Matches	Innings	Runs	Centuries	Fifties	Fifty-Plus Scores
1	Chris Gayle	309	303	10571	18	65	83
2	David Warner	238	237	7572	6	58	64
3	Virat Kohli	224	211	6964	4	51	55
4	Gautam Gambhir	236	232	6164	0	51	51
5	Rohit Sharma	257	245	6990	3	47	50
6	Brad Hodge	270	256	7338	2	48	50

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