Asia Cup, India vs Nepal: India played an ODI against Nepal for the first time and in this match, Team India won by 10 wickets. In this rain-interrupted match, the Indian team had a target of 145 runs in 23 overs to win and on the basis of an unbeaten innings of 74 runs by captain Rohit Sharma and an unbeaten 67 runs by Shubman Gill, Team India got an easy victory.
India achieved the target for victory in 20.1 overs. In this match, Rohit Sharma broke Suresh Raina’s record by hitting 5 sixes during his innings and also left behind former captain Sourav Ganguly by winning the Player of the Match award.
Rohit broke Raina’s record
Captain Rohit Sharma scored an unbeaten 74 off 59 balls with the help of 5 sixes and 6 fours in the Asia Cup 2023 league match against Nepal. With 5 sixes in his innings, he left Suresh Raina behind and became the Indian batsman to hit the most number of sixes for India in Sri Lanka. Rohit Sharma has hit 27 sixes in Sri Lanka so far while Suresh Raina has hit 25 sixes.
Indian batsman who hit most sixes in Sri Lanka
- 27 – Rohit Sharma
- 25 – Suresh Raina
- 22 – Sourav Ganguly
- 20 – Sachin Tendulkar
- 17- Shikhar Dhawan
Rohit Sharma left behind Ganguly
Rohit Sharma scored an unbeaten 74 while scoring his first half-century for India against Nepal and was awarded the Player of the Match title for this innings. Rohit Sharma won the Player of the Match award for the 38th time in international cricket, surpassing Ganguly who won the award 37 times. Sachin Tendulkar has won the Player of the Match title for the most number of times from India, while Virat Kohli is second in this case.
Batsmen who have won the most player of the match titles for India
- 76 – Sachin Tendulkar
- 63 – Virat Kohli
- 38 – Rohit Sharma
- 37 – Sourav Ganguly
- 34- Yuvraj Singh
Rohit hit 5 or more sixes in an innings for the 16th time in ODIs. Rohit Sharma did the feat of hitting 5 or more sixes in an ODI innings for the 16th time in ODI cricket. He is number one in the list of batsmen who have hit 5 or more sixes in an ODI innings from India. Sachin Tendulkar is in second place and has done this 7 times.
Batsmen who hit 5 or more sixes most times for India in an ODI innings
- 16 – Rohit Sharma
- 8 – Sachin Tendulkar
- 7 – Sourav Ganguly
- 6 – Virender Sehwag
- 4 – MS Dhoni
- 4 – Yuvraj Singh
- 4- Virat Kohli
- 4 – Hardik Pandya
