Rohit Sharma Breaks Virat Kohli's T20I Record in the 2024 T20 World Cup
In the T20 World Cup 2024, Rohit Shama broke the record of Virat Kohli and became the highest run-scorer for team India in the T20 Internationals. Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli, both are the opening batters for the Indian national cricket team. One is the current captain and another is the former captain of the team. Read the given blog that covers all about the news of Shama breaking Kohli’s T20I record.
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India in T20 World Cup 2024
Team India is performing extremely well in the ICC T20 Men’s World Cup 2024. The Captain, Rohit Sharma, also achieved another milestone in this tournament and surpassed the former captain, Virat Kohli’s record of T20I.
In their Super 8 match against Australia, Team India defeated Australia with 24 runs under the captaincy of Rohit Sharma. Sharma played while playing for the team and made this new record. He achieved this record while partnering with Rishabh Pant.
Rohit Sharma Virat Kohli T20I Record
Rohit Shama broke Virat Kohli’s record and became the highest run scorer in T20 International. The score of Sharma before the India Vs Australia Super 8 T20 World Cup 2024 match was 4053 whereas Kohli had 4103. After this match, Rohit hit 92 runs in just 41 balls and is currently standing at the top of the list of most runs in his career in T20 Internationals with 4165 runs.
Highest Runs by the Indian Captain
Sharma also excelled with Kohli in his record of highest runs by the Indian captain in the T20 World Cups. In this inning vs Australia, Rohit, Indian Captain, made 92 whereas Virat’s highest score as a captain was 57. Rohit is just next to Chris Gayle in this record worldwide as the latter scored 98 as a captain of the West Indies team in a match against India in 2010.
Most Runs in Career in T20 Internationals
Before Rohit Sharma, the list was topped by Babar Azam from Pakistan with a total score of 4145. Following him was Virat Kohli with a total score of 4103. Now, Rohit Sharma is leading the chart with 4165 runs.
Rohit Sharma in his T20I span from 2007 to 2024, has collected a total of 4,165 runs in 149 innings from 157 matches. His highest score to date in T20I is 121. He has an average of 32.03 with a strike rate of 140.75.
Maximum Sixes in T20I
Another record by Sharma in T20I is that he hit the maximum sixes and is the only player to hit more than 200 sixes. Till now in T20Is, Sharma has a collection of 203 sixes and 375 fours. He made 5 centuries and 31 half-centuries in T20I.
Conclusion
In the match of India vs Australia, Rohit Sharma, the captain of team India, broke the record of top Indian batter and former captain, Virat Kohli, and became the maximum run scorer in his career in T20 Internationals.
Read the given blog that covers all about this new record of Sharma along with his other records in T20Is.
