{"id":312349,"date":"2023-04-22T17:43:48","date_gmt":"2023-04-22T17:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2023\/04\/22\/rohit-sharma-becomes-first-indian-to-hit-250-sixes-in-ipl-cricket-news-times-of-india\/"},"modified":"2023-04-22T17:43:48","modified_gmt":"2023-04-22T17:43:48","slug":"rohit-sharma-becomes-first-indian-to-hit-250-sixes-in-ipl-cricket-news-times-of-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2023\/04\/22\/rohit-sharma-becomes-first-indian-to-hit-250-sixes-in-ipl-cricket-news-times-of-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Rohit Sharma becomes first Indian to hit 250 sixes in IPL | Cricket News &#8211; Times of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>MUMBAI: Mumbai Indians (MI) skipper <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/rohit-sharma\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" data-ga=\"Click-Hyperlink|link_topic-Rohit Sharma-https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/rohit-sharma\" target=\"\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rohit Sharma<\/a> touched the mark of 250 sixes in Indian Premier League (<a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" data-ga=\"Click-Hyperlink|link_topic-IPL-https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\" target=\"\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">IPL<\/a>) history, becoming the first-ever Indian to do so.<br \/>The &#8216;Hitman&#8217; as he is known to millions, accomplished this feat against Punjab Kings (PBKS) in his side&#8217;s home arena of <!-- -->Wankhede Stadium<!-- -->, Mumbai.<br \/>In the match, <!-- -->Rohit<!-- --> played a knock of 44 runs in 27 balls. His knock consisted of four boundaries and three sixes. His runs came at a strike rate of over 162. He was caught and bowled by Liam Livingstone during the run-chase of 215.<\/p>\n<div data-pos=\"0\" class=\"id-r-component QbQNS undefined  &#10;        \">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"4\" msid=\"99696980\" width=\"600\" title=\"\" placeholdersrc=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/photo\/42706777.gif\" imgsize=\"23456\" resizemode=\"4\" offsetvertical=\"0\" placeholdermsid=\"\" type=\"thumb\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/imgsize-23456,msid-99696980,width-600,resizemode-4\/99696980.jpg\" data-api-prerender=\"true\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>With this, his six tally in IPL has gone to exactly 250 sixes. In 233 matches, he has scored 6,058 runs at an average of 30.29 and a strike rate of 130.22. He has one century and 41 half-centuries in league, with the best score of 109*.<br \/>He is the third player overall to have hit 250 or more sixes in IPL.<br \/>The top five players with the most sixes in IPL history: <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/chris-gayle\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" data-ga=\"Click-Hyperlink|link_topic-Chris Gayle-https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/chris-gayle\" target=\"\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chris Gayle<\/a> &#8211; 357, AB De Villiers &#8211; 251, Rohit Sharma &#8211; 250, MS Dhoni &#8211; 235, Virat Kohli &#8211; 229<\/div>\n<p><script>if(typeof window !== 'undefined') {\n    window.TimesApps = window.TimesApps || {};\n    const { TimesApps } = window;\n    TimesApps.loadScriptsOnceAdsReady = () => {\n      var scripts = [\n      'https:\/\/static.clmbtech.com\/ad\/commons\/js\/2658\/toi\/colombia_v2.js',\n      'https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/grxpushnotification_js\/minify-1,version-2.cms',\n      'https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/locateservice_js\/minify-1,version-14.cms'\n    ];\n      scripts.forEach(function(url) {\n        let script = document.createElement('script');\n        script.type=\"text\/javascript\";\n        if(!false && !false && !false && url.indexOf('colombia_v2')!== -1){\n          script.src = url;\n        } else if (!false && !false && !false && url.indexOf('sdkloader')!== -1) {\n          script.src = url;\n        } else if (!false && (url.indexOf('tvid.in\/sdk') !== -1 || url.indexOf('connect.facebook.net') !== -1 || url.indexOf('locateservice_js') !== -1 )) {\n          script.src = url;\n        } else if (url.indexOf('colombia_v2')== -1 && url.indexOf('sdkloader')== -1 && url.indexOf('tvid.in\/sdk')== -1 && url.indexOf('connect.facebook.net') == -1){\n          script.src = url;\n        }\n        script.async = true;\n        script.defer = true;\n        document.body.appendChild(script);\n      });\n    }\n  }\n  <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/top-stories\/rohit-sharma-becomes-first-indian-to-hit-250-sixes-in-ipl\/articleshow\/99696954.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] MUMBAI: Mumbai Indians (MI) skipper Rohit Sharma touched the mark of 250 sixes in Indian Premier League (IPL) history, becoming the first-ever Indian to do so.The &#8216;Hitman&#8217; as he is known to millions, accomplished this feat against Punjab Kings (PBKS) in his side&#8217;s home arena of Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai.In the match, Rohit played a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":312350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[625,277,275,159362,827,420,25011,672,3230],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312349"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}