Rohit Sharma created history by making a world record, became the first player in the world to achieve this feat in international cricket.

By Samira Vishwas On Jan 14, 2026

Yes, that is what has happened. Actually, in the first match of the ODI series against New Zealand, Rohit Sharma hit three fours and two sixes in his innings of 26 runs. The special thing is that with this he has now completed 650 sixes in his international career and he has become the first player in world cricket to do so. You will be surprised to know that apart from Hitman, no other player in international cricket has been able to hit even 600 sixes, leave alone 650.

Most sixes in international cricket

Let us tell you that 38-year-old Rohit Sharma is India’s fourth highest international run scorer. He achieved this feat by scoring 20,074 runs in 539 innings. In this list, only Sachin Tendulkar, Virat Kohli, and Rahul Dravid are present above him.

If we talk about the first ODI, then New Zealand has set a big target of 301 runs for India to win.

Both teams are like this

India (Playing XI): Rohit Sharma, Shubman Gill (captain), Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul (wicketkeeper), Ravindra Jadeja, Washington Sundar, Harshit Rana, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna.

New Zealand (Playing XI): Devon Conway, Henry Nicholls, Will Young, Daryl Mitchell, Glenn Phillips, Mitchell Hay (wk), Michael Bracewell (c), Zachary Foulkes, Christian Clarke, Kyle Jamieson, Aditya Ashok.