Abhishek Sharma World Record: Indian opener Abhishek Sharma has created history. In the second T20 match against West Indies, he scored 20 runs in 11 balls, in which he hit 2 fours and 1 six. Even though he could not play a big innings, he broke the world record. Actually, Abhishek Sharma has become the batsman to hit the most sixes in the first over of a T20 International match. So far in his career, he has hit 14 sixes in the first over. In the last match, Abhishek Sharma broke the record of Indian veteran batsman Rohit Sharma by completing 13 sixes. Rohit Sharma hit 12 sixes in the first over of the T20 International match. Now Abhishek Sharma has left behind all the batsmen of the world.
Abhishek Sharma broke the world record
Abhishek Sharma played an inning of 20 runs in the second T20 being played against West Indies in Ranchi. He hit a brilliant six on the last ball of the first over of the Indian team’s innings. With this, he became the player (batsman of full member team) who hit the most sixes in the first over in T20 International. Abhishek Sharma broke the world record of Paul Sterling and Evin Lewis, who hit 13 sixes each in the first over. In this list, Rohit Sharma and New Zealand’s Martin Guptill are at third place. Both of them had hit 12-12 sixes in the first over of their T20 International career.
Batsmen who hit most sixes in the first over in T20I (full member team)
- 14 sixes- Abhishek Sharma
- 13 sixes- Paul Stirling
- 13 sixes- Evin Lewis
- 13 sixes- Rohit Sharma
- 13 sixes- Martin Guptill
How is the match?
Talking about the match, in this match West Indies won the toss and decided to bowl first. Sanju Samson and Abhishek Sharma started the innings for India. Abhishek Sharma was out after scoring 20 runs. Apart from this, Ishan Kishan played an inning of 43 runs in 22 balls, while Shivam Dubey could score only 7 runs. At the same time, wicketkeeper batsman Sanju Samson scored a brilliant half-century. He played an innings of 82 runs in 41 balls. Currently captain Shreyas Iyer (34) and Tilak Verma (21) are batting. India has scored 215 runs after losing 4 wickets in 18 overs.