Sanju Samson equals Rohit Sharma’s special record.
The Indian team, under the captaincy of Suryakumar Yadav, is on a tour of South Africa to play a four-match T20 series, the first match of which is being played at the Kingsmead ground in Durban. In this match, the Indian team got a chance to bat first in which they scored 202 runs at the loss of 8 wickets in 20 overs. In this match, the Indian team saw an inning of 107 runs in 50 balls from the bat of Sanju Samson. While Samson scored his second consecutive century in T20 International, he also equaled a big record of Rohit Sharma.
Sanju equaled Rohit Sharma in this matter of sixes.
Sanju Samson hit a total of 10 sixes in his innings of 107 runs in the first match of this T20 series being played in Durban against South Africa. With this, Sanju has now jointly equaled Rohit Sharma in terms of hitting the most sixes for India in an innings of a T20 International match. Rohit had hit a total of 10 sixes during his century innings in the T20 match against Sri Lanka played at Indore ground in 2017.
Players who hit most sixes in an innings of T20 International match for India
Rohit Sharma – 10 sixes (vs 8 Sri Lanka, year 2017, Indore)
Sanju Samson – 10 sixes (vs South Africa, year 2024, Durban)
Suryakumar Yadav – 9 sixes (vs Sri Lanka, year 2023, Rajkot)
KL Rahul – 8 sixes (vs Sri Lanka, 2017, Indore)
India scored its fifth century in T20.
Virat Kohli is still at the first place in terms of scoring most centuries in T20 format with 9 century innings. Rohit Sharma is at second position with 8 centuries. Sanju Samson has scored his fifth century in T20 format, his second consecutive century in International. Earlier last month, Sanju had played a century in the last match of the T20 series against Bangladesh in the beginning of October.
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