MI opener Rohit Sharma scaled yet another milestone in his T20 career as he breached the 500 mark for the number of sixers scored in the shortest format of the game during the IPL 2024 game between Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on Sunday.
Rohit went down on one leg and slogged a Ravindra Jadeja delivery over the ropes for a maximum which etched his name into an elite club of players to have cleared the boundary lines over five hundred times.
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Windies legend Chris Gayle leads the list with a mammoth 1056 sixers to his name in his illustrious career, followed by compatriot Kieron Pollard, who has amassed 860 maximums.
Third on the list is another Windies player as Andre Russell has managed to smash 678 sixers in his T20 career, followed by Kiwi batter Colin Munro, who has managed to dispatch the ball over the ropes an incredible 548 times.
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In the match, MI skipper Hardik Pandya opted to put Ruturaj Gaikwad’s CSK to bat first in the highly charged encounter as Chennai opener Ajinkya Rahane fell cheaply for 5 off 8 deliveries. Rachin Ravindra stood by his skipper to put up a 52-run stand before falling prey to Shreyas Gopal.
Gaikwad and Shivam Dube occupied the crease for a 90-run partnership before the CSK captain was scalped by his counterpart Pandya after making a brilliant 69 off 40.
Daryl Mitchell was dismissed after scoring 17 runs before MS Dhoni produced an incredible cameo to take Chennai past the 200-run mark.
The World Cup winner smashed three sixers on the trot in the four balls he faced to finish unbeaten on 20 off 4 deliveries, alongside Dube, who remained unbeaten on 66 off 38.
MI were off to a blistering start to the chase as Rohit and Ishan Kishan put up a 70 runs partnership in the first seven overs of the game before CSK’s Sri Lankan seamer Matheesa Pathirana sent the southpaw back to the hut for 23 off 15 deliveries, before removing Suryakumar Yadav for a duck a couple of deliveries later.
Tilak Varma accompanied Rohit for a 50-run stand before departing for 31 off 20 as Pathirana claimed a three-wicket haul.
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