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Rohit Sharma guaranteed two six-hitting records during India's 160-run prevail upon the Netherlands in the ICC Cricket World Cup 2023.

Sharma has been in scorching structure, hitting a greater number of sixes than some other player in the continuous release of the Cricket World Cup. The Indian commander struck two sixes and eight fours in his knock of 61 pursues off 54 conveyances he won the throw at Bengaluru's Chinnaswamy Arena and picked to bat against the Netherlands.

With his initial six of the match off the bowling of Netherlands off-spinner Colin Ackermann, Sharma secured the record for most sixes hit by a batsman in a schedule year in the One-Day Internationals (ODIs).

The initial player has now hammered 60 sixes in 2023, outperforming the past record - 58, held by South Africa legend Stomach muscle de Villiers, who accomplished the accomplishment in 2015.

West Indian large hitter Chris Gayle sits third on the rundown of most ODI sixes in a year, with 56 sixes in 2019, in front of Pakistan extraordinary Shahid Afridi's 48 sixes in 2002.



Sharma, whose second six on Sunday fell off Dutch spinner Roelof van der Merwe's bowling, likewise outperformed Britain's Eoin Morgan in the record for most sixes by a skipper in a solitary version of the Cricket World Cup. Morgan struck 22 sixes in World Cup 2019, while Sharma has taken his count of sixes to 24 in the continuous mission in India. The Indian captain isn't finished at this point as India have equipped for the semi-last.

Most sixes by a skipper in a solitary World Cup:

24* - India's Rohit Sharma in 2023

22 - Britain's Eoin Morgan in 2019

21 - South Africa's Stomach muscle de Villiers in 2015

18 - Australia's Aaron Finch in 2019


17 - New Zealand's Brendon McCullum in 2015

Sharma, prior in the competition, had crushed his direction into history books by turning into the player with the most sixes across all types of global cricket. The unstable player stowed the accomplishment during India's eight-wicket prevail upon Afghanistan in Delhi on 11 October.

Group India completed the gathering stage as the main unbeaten side in the competition. Against the Dutch side, every one of the Indian players who left to bat scored essentially 50 years. Sharma and Shubman Gill set up an initial stand of 100 runs, with the two players scoring a fifty each. One-down batsman Virat Kohli likewise contributed with 50 years before KL Rahul and Shreyas Iyer changed over their begins a long period - 102 and 128 not out, separately, and drove India to a mammoth all out of 401 runs in 50 overs.

The 160-run triumph denoted India's 24th win in an ODI this year, equalling their past count of most wins in the 50-over design in a schedule year, which they had last accomplished in 1998.

The main semi-last of World Cup 2023 is among India and New Zealand on Wednesday 15 November at Wankhede Arena, Mumbai. The next day is the semi-last among Australia and South Africa at Kolkata's Eden Nurseries.