Leading the sixes chart
Rohit surpassed Chris Gayle’s record of 553 sixes in international cricket by hitting 16 sixes to the fence and five over it in his 84-ball 131. Jos Buttler, the captain of England’s white-ball team, is the second-best cricketer currently playing, with 315 sixes to his credit across all formats.
International cricket’s majority sixes
Rohit Sharma
Chris Gayle
Shahid Afridi
Brendon McCullum
Martin Guptill
World Cups’ shortest innings to 1,000 runs
In the World Cup, Rohit Sharma amassed 1,000 runs in 19 innings, which tied David Warner for the fastest time to the mark (the latter had done so in Chennai on Sunday). Rohit has the best average (65.23) of the 23 batters who have scored at least 1000 runs in the World Cup to this point; AB de Villiers (117.29) has the second-best strike rate (exactly 100).
David Warner
Rohit Sharma
Sachin Tendulkar
AB de Villiers
Sir Vivian Richards
Sourav Ganguly
A weight breaking record
Rohit broke Sachin Tendulkar’s previous record of six World Cup hundreds to score his 31st century in ODIs and an astounding seventh overall. It’s interesting to note that Rohit faced six different oppositions in his seven World Cup hundreds. In the competition, Sachin Tendulkar (6) and Kumar Sangakkara (5) each scored a goal against a different team five times.
Numerous ODI hundreds
Sachin Tendulkar
Virat Kohli
Rohit Sharma
Ricky Ponting
Sanath Jayasuriya
Most hundreds in World Cups
Rohit Sharma
Sachin Tendulkar
Ricky Ponting
Kumar Sangakkara
Rohit scored his 29th hundred as an opener, which is only surpassed by Tendulkar’s 45 runs while batting.
In a successful chase, he has now scored three World Cup hundreds, breaking the previous record of two held by Gordon Greenidge, Ramiz Raja, and Stephen Fleming.
The record for the quickest Indian to reach the century in a World Cup was previously held by Virender Sehwag, who accomplished it in 81 balls against Bermuda at Port of Spain in 2007. Rohit broke that record with his 63-ball total. In a World Cup chase, it is also the second-fastest hundred.
Additionally, it was India’s fifth-fastest hundred in the format; ironically, all of them came during a successful run-chase.
Fastest hundreds in World Cups (by balls faced)
Aiden Markram (SA) vs SL, Delhi, 2023
Kevin O’Brien (IRE) vs ENG, Bengaluru, 2011
Glenn Maxwell (AUS) vs SL, Sydney, 2015
AB de Villiers (SA) vs WI, Sydney, 2015
Eoin Morgan (ENG) vs AFG, Manchester, 2019
Rohit Sharma vs AFG, Delhi, 2023
Fastest ODI hundreds for India (by balls faced)
Virat Kohli vs AUS, Jaipur, 2013
Virender Sehwag vs NZ, Hamilton, 2009
Virat Kohli vs AUS, Nagpur, 2013
Mohammad Azharuddin vs NZ, Baroda, 1988
Rohit Sharma vs AFG, Delhi, 2023
runs scored by Rohit Sharma is the second highest in the first 10 overs of a World Cup innings since 2003 (where ball-by-ball data available), one short of Brendon McCullum’s 77 against England in Wellington in 2015. The third highest –
runs scored by Rohit is the highest for India in a successful World Cup chase, surpassing Tendulkar’s 127* against Kenya in Cuttack in the 1996 edition.
Highest opening partnerships for India in World Cup
| Runs | Pair | Opponent | Venue,Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 189 | Rohit Sharma, KL Rahul | Sri Lanka | Leeds, 2019 |
| 180 | Rohit Sharma, KL Rahul | Bangladesh | Birmingham, 2019 |
| 174 | Shikhar Dhawan, Rohit Sharma | Ireland | Hamilton, 2015 |
| 163 | Sachin Tendulkar, Ajay Jadeja | Kenya | Cuttack, 1996 |
| 156 | Ishan Kishan, Rohit Sharma | Afghanistan | Delhi, 2023 |
All but one of the aforementioned stands—Birmingham 2019—came in chases.
The partnership occurred at a run-rate of 8.35, the highest in World Cup history for an opening stand with a minimum value of 150. The unbeaten 201-run stand between Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir against New Zealand at Hamilton in 2009 came at 8.55 runs per over, ranking fifth overall in all ODIs and second fastest for India.