Former Indian captain Rohit Sharma is just three hits away from breaking Pakistan great Shahid Afridi’s record of most sixes in ODI cricket. Sharma will return to the field during the three-match ODI series between India and South Africa starting from November 30 at the JSCA Stadium in Ranchi. In ODI cricket, Sharma has hit 349 sixes, while Afridi has 351 sixes – the most by any batsman in this format.
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The list also includes legendary cricketers like Chris Gayle (331), Sanath Jayasuriya (270), MS Dhoni (229), Eoin Morgan (220), AB de Villiers (204), Brendon McCullum (200), Sachin Tendulkar (195) and Sourav Ganguly (190). Apart from achieving the feat of 350 ODI sixes, Sharma is set to become only the fourth Indian cricketer to reach the historic figure of 20,000 runs in international cricket.
The experienced Indian opening batsman has scored 19,902 international runs in 502 matches. Sharma has scored 4,301 runs in 67 test matches. He has 4,231 runs in T20Is and 11,370 runs in ODIs. He is just 98 runs away from joining the list of great Indian batsmen like Sachin Tendulkar, Virat Kohli and Rahul Dravid. Tendulkar is at the first position with 34,357 runs, followed by Virat Kohli with 27,673 runs and Dravid at second position with 24,064 runs.
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Sharma, who retired from T20 International cricket after winning the ICC T20 World Cup 2024, had also quit Test cricket earlier this year. Sharma will enter the ODI series against South Africa after scoring a match-winning century against Australia in Sydney. He scored an unbeaten 121 off 125 balls, helping India register a consolation win after trailing 2-0 in the three-match ODI series. Virat Kohli will return to the field for India during the three-match ODI series against South Africa. Like Rohit, Kohli also plays only ODI matches now. Team India will try to boost its morale after the 2-0 Test series defeat at home against the Proteas earlier this week.