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Rohit Sharma had a few records in sight coming into the second ODI but he bas missed out on a few of them. In the second match, Rohit Sharma was dismissed for 24 runs of 36 balls. It was an unusual innings from him as he could not score in his first nine balls and was off the mark after that. He did play a few good shots but soon lost his wicket to Kristian Clarke. He charged down the target and tried to hit it over the top but ended up giving a catch to the fielder in the deep.
Rohit Sharma was dismissed for 26 in the first ODI, but he smashed two sixes in his innings. By hitting two sixes in the last game Rohit Sharma became the batsman with the most sixes as an opener in ODIs. Had Rohit Sharma hits three sixes in the second ODI, he will hold the record for hitting the most sixes against SENA teams in international matches. By doing so, he will become the only batsman in the world to do so but he missed out on this record as he could not score any six in today’s fixture.
Rohit Sharma also was 41 runs short of reaching 16,000 runs as an opener ahead of this game and he could score only 24 so he is still 17 runs away and will he aiming to get past that milestone in the next game. Apart from all this, Rohit also completed 6000 ODI runs as an opener in Asia. Rohit Sharma also needs one more century to hold the record of scoring the most centuries as an Indian opener.
Another record missed today was, Rohit needed only two more sixes to hit the most sixes against New Zealand in the ODI format. Rohit has hit 49 sixes against New Zealand in ODIs so far. Shahid Afridi holds the world record for most sixes against New Zealand in ODIs. Afridi has hit 50 sixes against New Zealand in this format and Rohit will have another chance to break this record in the upcoming match.
