AUS vs IND: India captain Rohit Sharma walked the talk with a rapid 41-ball 92 against Australia on Monday, 24 June. Sharma slammed 8 sixes as India dominated Australia in the first innings of the match.
India's captain Rohit Sharma plays a riveting knock vs AUS. (AP Photo)
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India captain Rohit Sharma played a career-best T20 World Cup innings while batting against Australia. Playing in St Lucia on Monday, 24 June, Rohit slammed a stunning 41-ball 92-run innings, his best in the T20 World Cup. Hitman just fell short of his maiden T20 World Cup hundred after he was bowled out by Mitchell Starc in the 12th over of the game. Sharma's innings was filled with 8 sixes and 7 boundaries, which helped India dominate the proceedings against Australia, despite the early wicket of Virat Kohli.
On the day, the India captain looked in terrific touch from the very start of the match. Sharma slammed Starc in his second over, just after Virat Kohli's dismissal in the match. This was Mitchell Starc's most expensive over in the T20I format.
Rohit dominated every single Australian bowler bar Josh Hazlewood. The right-hander took the attack to Pat Cummins, Starc and Adam Zampa in the first 10 overs of the match. In his innings, Rohit also reached the feat of 200th T20I six - the first-ever cricketer to achieve the feat.
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Rohit completed his fifty in just 19 balls, the third-fastest fifty scored by any Indian batter in a T20 World Cup. Rohit was behind Yuvraj Singh's 12-ball fifty vs England in 2007 and KL Rahul's 18-ball fifty against Scotland in the 2021 edition of the tournament.
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Sharma continued his approach after reaching his feat despite the dismissal of Virat Kohli and Rishabh Pant on the other side. Before this game, Sharma had said that there was no point chasing personal milestones, rather the Indian batting unit should only look to score runs aggressively.
"I have been talking about this for a long time now. It's about going there and putting that to work. Considering everything we played really well, and adapted to the conditions. There's a little bit of wind factor here, overall we are very smart, overall we were good with bat and ball," Sharma told the broadcaster after the match.
"All eight batters need to play their role, whatever it is. We saw one guy get 50 and we got 196, in T20 I don't believe we need to get fifties and hundreds, what matters is the pressure you put on the bowlers. All the batters from the word go played like that and that's how we want to play as well," Rohit had said.
Published By:
Kingshuk Kusari
Published On:
Jun 24, 2024
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