IPL 2024: Talking about the 17th season of the Indian Premier League, Rohit Sharma especially remains in the headlines. Although he was stripped of the captaincy of Mumbai Indians even before the start of the season, there has been a lot of difference in his way of batting. He is beating every bowler fiercely. As an opening batsman, Rohit is giving good starts to MI by playing fast innings. 'Hitman' has so far scored 297 runs in 7 matches played in IPL 2024, in which 30 fours and 18 sixes have also come from his bat. Let us tell you that Rohit is the batsman who has hit the most sixes in the powerplay so far in IPL 2024.
In the current season, Rohit Sharma has so far hit a total of 13 sixes in powerplay overs. In IPL 2024, the only match against Rajasthan Royals has been the one in which Rohit Sharma did not hit a six. He was out on the score of zero on the very first ball in that match. No player is even remotely close to Rohit in terms of hitting the most number of sixes in the powerplay. On one hand, Rohit alone has hit 13 sixes, while the entire team of Lucknow Super Giants has so far been able to hit 12 sixes in the powerplay overs of IPL 2024. Apart from them, players of LSG and CSK have so far been able to hit 11 sixes each in powerplay overs. Gujarat Titans players have hit only 10 sixes, Rajasthan Royals players have hit only 6 sixes and Punjab Kings players have hit only 4 sixes in powerplay overs.
Indian players who hit most sixes in IPL
Rohit Sharma is not called 'Hitman' for nothing. Rohit Sharma is the Indian player who has hit the most sixes in the history of IPL. He has hit 275 sixes in 250 matches so far and in terms of hitting most sixes, only Chris Gayle is ahead of him, who has 357 sixes in his name. The second highest number of sixes hit Indian player is Virat Kohli, who has hit 248 sixes in his career so far.
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