port of Spain. Rohit Sharma scored his first half-century of the T20 International of 2022. He scored 64 runs in the first match of the 5-match T20 series (IND vs WI) against West Indies. Team India has scored 190 runs for 6 wickets after losing the toss and playing first. In this way, the host team will have to achieve a struggling target. Earlier, the Indian team had a 3-0 clean sweep in the ODI series. Captain Rohit made 2 big records during the innings and left behind the players of 2 countries. He has again become the highest run-scorer in T20 Internationals.
In the match, West Indies captain Nicholas Pooran won the toss and decided to bowl. Rohit Sharma and Suryakumar Yadav came out to open. Both added 44 runs for the first wicket. Rohit scored 64 runs in 44 balls. During this he hit 7 fours and 2 sixes. That is, he scored 40 runs from the boundary. The strike rate was of 145. He scored more than 50 for the 31st time in T20 Internationals. It includes 4 centuries.
Kohli and Guptill left behind
Rohit Sharma left behind former India captain Virat Kohli and New Zealand’s Martin Guptill in his innings. Rohit has scored 3443 runs in T20 Internationals and has reached number-1. He left Guptill behind. He has scored 3399 runs. At the same time, before this, Kohli had scored more than 50 runs in T20 Internationals, the maximum number of 30 times. Now Rohit is on top in this matter as well.
Apart from Rohit Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav scored 24 runs in 16 balls for India in the first T20. At the same time, Ravindra Jadeja got out after scoring 16 runs. Dinesh Karthik remained unbeaten on 41 off 19 balls and R Ashwin on 13 runs off 10 balls. Both added 52 not out in 4 overs for the 7th wicket. Fast bowler Alzarri Joseph, making his T20 debut for West Indies, took 2 wickets for 46 runs in 4 overs.
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FIRST PUBLISHED : July 29, 2022, 21:49 IST
