33 Interesting stats from Rohit Sharma's career

The Captain:

21. Rohit Sharma’s unbeaten 208 against Sri Lanka in 2017 Mohali ODI is one of the two double centuries scored by captains in Men’s ODIs. Virender Sehwag scored 219 in the 2011 Indore ODI against West Indies. Rohit was non-striker when Sehwag got to his 200-run mark.

22. Rohit Sharma is the only player with multiple centuries as captain in Men’s T20Is. He scored 118 against Sri Lanka in 2017 Indore T20I and 111* against West Indies in the 2018 Lucknow T20I.

23. Rohit has hit 10+ sixes twice as the Indian captain in an innings/match which has not been achieved by anyone else. He smashed 12 sixes in the 2017 Mohali ODI and 10 during the 2017 Indore T20I; both against Sri Lanka.

The six-hitting machine:

24. Rohit hit 13 sixes during the 2019 Vizag Test match against South Africa which are the most number of sixes hit by any player in a Test.

25. The 13 sixes during the Vizag Test helped Rohit become the first player in International Cricket to hit 10+ sixes in a match at least once in all three formats. He struck 16 and 12 sixes in an ODI respectively during his knocks of 209 and 208*. Rohit also smashed 10 sixes during his 35-ball T20I hundred against Sri Lanka in Indore.

26. Rohit hit a total of 19 sixes during last year’s Test series against South Africa. Those are the most number of sixes hit by any player in any Test series.

27. Rohit reached 50 sixes in Test cricket in only 51 innings which makes him the 2nd quickest to 50 Test sixes. Shahid Afridi smashed 50 sixes in the longer format in only 46 innings.

28. Rohit’s 78 sixes in International cricket in 2019 are the most International sixes by any player in a calendar year. Rohit broke his own record of 74 sixes which he struck in 2018. Even in 2018, Sharma broke his own world record which was created in 2017 with the 65 sixes.

29. Rohit holds the record for scoring most number of sixes in a match for India in all the three formats. He hit 13 sixes against South Africa in 2017 Vizag test, 16 sixes against Australia in 2013 Bangalore ODI and 10 sixes against Sri Lanka in 2017 Indore T20I.

In IPL and Indian domestic circuit:

30. Rohit Sharma was the first Indian cricketer to have scored a century in the Twenty20 format. He scored an unbeaten 101 off 45 balls for Mumbai against Gujarat during the 2006-07 Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 tournament.

31. Rohit Sharma achieved bowling figures of 4/6 in the two overs during the 2009 IPL match against Mumbai Indians where he took a hat-trick. Those bowling figures till date are the best for any player against the Mumbai Indians in the IPL.

32. Rohit Sharma is one of the six players to have scored twin centuries in a Ranji Trophy final. He achieved this feat during the 2008-09 Ranji Trophy season against Uttar Pradesh. Rohit is also the only player with twin tons in a Ranji final since the start of 1995-96 edition of the tournament.

33. Rohit Sharma finished three successful IPL chases on the last ball by hitting a six which no other player has done more than once. (For DC vs KKR in 2009, For MI vs PWI in 2011 and For MI vs DC in 2012)