In the match against Australia recorded in Gros Islet, India’s total was compiled with the highest total achieved by any side against Australia in the men’s T20 World Cup. This superb performance meant that India was scoring 205 runs for the first time since the 2012 semi-final of the West Indies.
India’s High Scoring Achievements
It is the third time that India has crossed a 200 total in the men’s T20 World Cup, equal with the West Indies and behind only South Africa, who have five. Exclusively, Rohit Sharma’s sensational innings of 92 off 41 against Australia are the second-highest individual score by India in the men’s T20 World Cup.
The highest is Suresh Raina’s 101 against South Africa in 2010 at the same venue, Gros Islet. Furthermore, the score that Rohit has achieved is the second highest for any captain in the history of this particular tournament after Chris Gayle of the West Indies, who scored 98 against the Indian team in the year 2010 on the ground situated in Bridgetown.
Indian batters struck 15 times in the sphere of the boundary, which is the most that they ever hit in a single inning when the opposition is playing in a men’s T20 World Cup game. The earlier record for the most number of sixes in an inning was 13, which was against Bangladesh in North Sound. Only two teams have managed more sixes in a T20 World Cup game.
Rohit Sharma’s Record-Breaking Performance
Rohit Sharma was brutal, scoring 92 from 56 balls with as many as eight sixes, thus creating a record for the most number of sixes by an Indian in a T20 World Cup match. He surpassed the earlier record of the former Indian cricketer Yuvraj Singh when he hit seven sixes against England in 2007, and out of those seven sixes, one of them was made in the over by Stuart Broad, which was a record of six sixes in an over.
The eight maximums by Rohit also placed him as the batsman with the most sixes against Australia in a men’s T20 World Cup innings.
Fastest Fifty and Powerplay Dominance
Rohit made his fifty in the fastest manner by taking just 19 balls, which is the fastest by any batsman against Australia in men’s T20Is. This knockdown broke Yuvraj Singh’s record set during the 2007 T20 World Cup and Kieron Pollard’s record in a 2012 T20I in St. Lucia, both of whom had a record 20 balls.
This was also the quickest fifty Rohit has made in T20 cricket for India, surpassing the 22-ball half-century against the West Indies in Lauderhill in 2016. Besides, it was the quickest fifty in the 2024 T20 World Cup.
Rohit Sharma took the aggressive shot at the beginning, making a fifty. India crossed fifty when Rohit reached fifty. The last fifty in any man’s T20I innings, where ball-by-ball data is available, was made when the team scored the lowest total. The previous record was 53, which was set by Patrick Matautaava in a match against Malaysia in 2019.
Rohit also managed to score 51 runs in the powerplay and achieved the position of the fourth player to score a fifty within the powerplay in the men’s T20 World Cup history; preceding batters were Stephan Myburgh (2014), KL Rahul (2021), and Litton Das (2022).
Mitchell Starc created a new unwanted record in the third over of his bowling by giving away 29 runs, of which 28 came from Rohit’s bat. Starc ‘spent’ this amount for the first time in his international or any other T20 cricket appearance. The 29 runs conceded are also the second most by any Australian bowler in the men’s T20I format, only lagging behind Glenn Maxwell, who conceded 30 runs in Guwahati last year.
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