Rohit Sharma Most Test Sixes Record and Half Century of Century: Indian captain Rohit Sharma would like to achieve some achievements in the first Test match of the two-match series against Bangladesh in Chennai from Thursday. The two-match series will start on September 19 at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai. The second long-format match will start on September 27 in Kanpur. Head coach Gautam Gambhir would like to win the series in his first Test. The Indian captain has been in excellent form so far in the ongoing ICC World Test Championship 2023-25. He has scored 700 runs in nine matches and 16 innings at an average of 46.66, which includes three centuries and three fifties. His best score is 131. He is the 12th highest run scorer in the competition so far.
Rohit Sharma will become sixer king
Rohit has to achieve two achievements during the series. With this first achievement, he will make his mark as the best six-hitter of the country. With 84 sixes hit in Test matches, Rohit is ranked 11th among the top six six hitters in the world. He needs only eight more big hits to surpass the legendary Virender Sehwag (91) and become the team’s player who has hit the most sixes in Test cricket.
England captain Ben Stokes (131), former New Zealand wicketkeeper-batsman Brendon McCullum (107) and iconic Australian wicketkeeper-batsman Adam Gilchrist (100) are the top three six-hitters in the world. If Rohit hits consecutive big sixes in these two matches, he can become the fourth and first Indian batsman to hit 100 sixes in Test matches.
Half century of centuries will be scored in international cricket
‘Hitman’ is also close to half-century of centuries in international cricket. With 48 centuries in 483 matches, he is just two centuries away from reaching 50 international centuries. He will become only the third Indian batsman to reach this milestone and the 10th player overall to do so. Currently, only Sachin Tendulkar (100 centuries) and Virat Kohli (80 centuries) from India have been able to cross half a century in international cricket. For Rohit Sharma’s team,
This series against Bangladesh will be followed by New Zealand’s tour of India for three Test matches starting from October 16, and then the Border-Gavaskar Trophy series in Australia from November 22.
India’s squad for the first test against Bangladesh: Rohit Sharma (captain), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, KL Rahul, Sarfaraz Khan, Rishabh Pant (wicket keeper), Dhruv Jurel (wicket keeper), R Ashwin, R Jadeja, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Siraj, Akashdeep, Jasprit Bumrah, Yash Dayal.