Rohit Sharma Virat Kohli: The Indian team will now play a 2-match Test series against Bangladesh at home, the first match of which will be played in Chennai from 19 September. In this series, Indian captain Rohit Sharma has a chance to make a great record. He will have a chance to become India’s Sixer King in Tests.
Apart from this, Virat Kohli’s bat can also score runs in a strong manner at Chennai’s Chepauk Stadium. We are saying this looking at his record on this ground. Kohli has a good record at Chepauk. Whereas Rohit will have a chance throughout the series to create a historic milestone.
Will break Sehwag’s record as soon as he hits 7 sixes
If Rohit hits 7 sixes in this series, he will become the batsman who has hit the most sixes in Test cricket for India. Rohit Sharma will leave behind former opener Virender Sehwag, who hit 90 sixes in 103 Test matches for India.
37-year-old Rohit Sharma has played 59 Test matches so far, in which he has hit 84 sixes. Mahendra Singh Dhoni is at number three in this list with 78 sixes. Sachin Tendulkar is at fourth and Ravindra Jadeja is at fifth position.
Indians who hit most sixes in test cricket
Virender Sehwag – 90 sixes in 178 innings
Rohit Sharma – 84 sixes in 101 innings
MS Dhoni – 78 sixes in 144 innings
Sachin Tendulkar – 69 sixes in 329 innings
Ravindra Jadeja – 64 sixes in 105 innings
Stokes has hit the most sixes in Tests
English captain Ben Stokes holds the record for hitting the most sixes in Test cricket. Ben Stokes has hit 131 sixes in 190 Test innings so far. He is followed by former New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum (107 sixes in 176 innings) and Australian legend Adam Gilchrist (100 sixes in 137 innings).
While the record of hitting the most sixes in international cricket is in the name of Rohit Sharma. He has played a total of 483 matches in all three formats, in which he has hit a total of 620 sixes. Rohit is the player who has hit the most sixes in T20 International. Rohit hit 205 sixes in 159 T20 International matches. Rohit is second in terms of hitting the most sixes in ODI cricket. Rohit has 331 sixes in 265 ODI International matches.
Joe Root scored more runs than Kohli at Chepauk
The record for most Test runs at Chennai’s Chepauk Stadium is held by Sunil Gavaskar, who scored 1018 runs in 12 matches. Among the foreign players is England’s Joe Root, who scored 391 runs in 3 matches. Root’s runs on this ground are more than Kohli’s.
Virat Kohli has scored 267 runs in 6 innings of 4 test matches on this ground. If he scores even one double century in 4 innings of 2 test matches against Bangladesh, he can take a big leap and move up in this list. However, he will need 442 runs to be in the top-5 scorers.
Bangladesh tour of India
First Test- Chennai- September 19-23
2nd Test – Kanpur – September 27 to October 1
1st T20 – Gwalior – 6 October
2nd T20 – Delhi – 9 October
3rd T20 – Hyderabad – October 12
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