IND vs PAK: Shubman Gill played his best innings against Pakistan and Rohit Sharma assembled 3 big records in his name

IND vs PAK: Shubman Gill played his best innings against Pakistan and Rohit Sharma assembled 3 big records in his name
Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill (Image- Twitter)
IND vs PAK: Shumbhan Gill scored a half-century for the first time against Pakistan and along with Rohit Sharma, he equaled the record of Sachin and Kohli.

Ind vs Pak Asia Cup Super 4 Match: In the Super Four match of Asia Cup 2023 against Pakistan, Indian opener batsmen Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill together gave a solid start for Team India and the partnership of 121 runs for the first wicket between the two was 100. Happened on balls. In this match, captain Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill both played half-centuries and were ultimately successful in giving an excellent start to India. In this match, Gill made a century partnership with Rohit and equaled the record of Sachin Tendulkar and Virat Kohli.

Gill played the best innings of the ODI against Pakistan

Shubman Gill completed his half-century in 37 balls in this match against Pakistan. He was looking in good form, but after scoring 58 runs on 52 balls, he was caught by Agha Salman off the ball of Shaheen Afridi. For the first time in ODI cricket, Shubman Gill succeeded in scoring a half-century against Pakistan and the innings he played in this match was his best score against the Pakistan cricket team in the ODI format. Gill had scored only 10 runs in the first match of this Asia Cup against Pakistan, but in this match, he faced the Pakistani bowlers very well.

Gill and Rohit equaled Sachin and Kohli

In Asia Cup 2023, Shubman Gill and Rohit Sharma made century partnerships in two matches, together they equaled Sachin Tendulkar and Virat Kohli. Sachin and Kohli have made the opening partnership twice for India in the Asia Cup and now Gill and Rohit have come to par with them. Gill and Rohit had made an unbeaten century partnership in the first league match against Nepal in the Asia Cup 2023 and after that, both made a partnership of 121 runs for the first wicket against Pakistan.

Highest century partnership for India in Asia Cup

  • 2- Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill
  • 2 – Sachin Tendulkar and Virat Kohli

Three new records of Rohit Sharma

Rohit Sharma has completed his 300th international match as an opener for India. With this, he has joined the special list of Sachin Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag. Before Rohit, this record from India was recorded in the names of these two batsmen. Let us tell you that Master Blaster played 346 matches as an opener and Virender Sehwag played 321 matches. This is Rohit Sharma’s 300th international match.

Rohit Sharma hit a six off Shaheen Afridi in the first over

Not only this, he has also registered a record in terms of hitting most sixes in the first over. Actually, Rohit Sharma hit a six off Shaheen Afridi in the first over, and with this, he has come second in terms of hitting most sixes in the first over of international cricket and has also broken the record of Paul Starling.

Let us tell you that the Indian captain hit a six in the first over of this match against Pakistan. Before him in this matter is New Zealand player Martin Guptill, who has hit 17 sixes. In second place was Paul Starling, who hit 14 sixes in the first over, but Rohit Sharma broke Starling’s record and came in second place with 15 sixes.

Apart from this, Rohit registered another record in his name. In fact, he has become the first batsman in the world to hit a six in the first over of Shaheen Shah Afridi in ODI cricket. Talking about this match, Pakistan won the toss and decided to bowl first.

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