port of Spain. The second match of the ongoing five-match T20 series between India and West Indies cricket team was played in St Kitts on Monday. In this match, the Indian team got a big defeat by five wickets with four balls to spare. With this, the Caribbean team has also leveled 1-1 in this series. During the match, a record was added to the name of Indian captain Rohit Sharma, which he would never like to miss.
In fact, people had high hopes yesterday from ‘Hitman’ Sharma. However, he could not live up to these expectations and was caught at backward point without scoring any run on the very first ball of Obed McCoy. Sharma was duck out for the sixth time for the Indian team yesterday as an opener. Although even before this match, this embarrassing record was registered in the name of Rohit Sharma.
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Players who got dismissed for zero most times as an opener in T20I cricket for India:
6 – Rohit Sharma
4 – KL Rahul
2 – Gautam Gambhir
2 – Ajinkya Rahane
2 – Shikhar Dhawan
Most runs recorded in T20 International cricket in the name of Rohit Sharma:
The Indian captain holds the record for scoring the most runs in the shortest format of cricket. Sharma has scored 3443 runs in 122 innings at an average of 32.17 while playing 130 T20 matches for the Indian team. During this, his bat has scored four centuries and 27 half-centuries. After Sharma, the name of Kiwi opener batsman Martin Guptill comes in second place. Guptill has played 116 matches in T20 International cricket since 2009, scoring 3399 runs in 112 innings at an average of 32.37.
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FIRST PUBLISHED : August 02, 2022, 06:10 IST
