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‘Missing the old Hitman’ – Twitter reacts as Rohit Sharma tops the calendar year thrice in terms of hitting most sixes in international cricket since 2017

Indian captain Rohit Sharma is one of the best batters in the world in limited-overs cricket. However, he even started to extend his dominance in the longest format of the game.

Currently, he has been out of form and his terrible performances put him on the back foot in the T20 World Cup 2022 tournament. Apart from the fifty against the Netherlands cricket team, he was out of form totally.

Moreover, he struggled to score runs at the rate of knots as Indian openers hardly upped their ante in the powerplay overs. As a result, they failed to make an impact in the showpiece event held in Australia.

Rohit Sharma is popularly known as “hitman” because of his incredible ability to hit sixes with relative ease. There is no hiding from the fact that he has hit most sixes for India in international cricket.

Rohit Sharma tops the calendar year thrice in terms of hitting most sixes in international cricket since 2017

It is also worth mentioning here that he has even surpassed MS Dhoni in terms of most sixes hit by an Indian in international cricket. Currently, Rohit has hit 496 sixes in international cricket. Recently, Rohit Sharma was spotted hitting the gym to work on his fitness.

He has been rested for the team’s tour of New Zealand that includes three T20Is and as many ODIs. The visitors came out on top much to New Zealand’s annoyance in the T20I series as they won the series by 1-0.

Meanwhile, a statistics featuring Rohit Sharma’s incredible achievement has been doing the rounds on social media. During the 2017 calendar year, Rohit was in imperious form as he smacked as many as 65 sixes to his name.

In the subsequent year, he hit as many as 74 sixes whereas he topped the calendar year for the third consecutive time by smacking 78 sixes in 2019. Meanwhile, in this year, Suryakumar Yadav hit 70 sixes, which is most by any batsman in international cricket.

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