Rohit Sharma breaks Virat Kohli’s big record, becomes batsman to score highest 50+ scores

Indian captain Rohit Sharma broke a big record of Virat Kohli on Sunday. He became the highest scorer of 50 plus scores in T20 Internationals.

Rohit Sharma won two consecutive tosses, two matches and now the series as soon as he became the captain, Virat Kohli’s record in danger

Rohit achieved this milestone in the last match of the T20 series against New Zealand in Kolkata on Sunday. Rohit completed his half century in 30 balls. With this, he went ahead of Virat Kohli, who has been rested in this series.

Rohit has four centuries in his name along with 26 half-centuries. At the same time, Virat has not been able to score any century in international cricket in this format.

Kohli has 29 half-centuries to his name. He has 3227 runs in 95 matches and his batting average is 52.04. Virat had already announced to step down as captain after the T20 International World Cup. The Indian team could not reach the semi-finals of this World Cup played in UAE.

With this, Rohit Sharma also became only the second batsman to hit 150 sixes in T20 Internationals on Sunday. He is only the second cricketer after Martin Guptill to do so. Rohit achieved this feat by hitting a six off Lockie Ferguson. Rohit has hit 150 sixes in 119 matches. He is 11 sixes behind Martin Guptill, who has hit 161 sixes in 112 matches.