{"id":92509,"date":"2025-11-30T16:02:56","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T11:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=92509"},"modified":"2025-11-30T16:02:56","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T11:02:56","slug":"rohit-sharma-breaks-afridis-world-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/rohit-sharma-breaks-afridis-world-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Rohit Sharma breaks Afridi&#8217;s world record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RANCHI: India batter Rohit Sharma etched his name into the history books, shattering former Pakistan captain <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/babar-azam-surpasses-shahid-afridi-for-most-catches-in-international-cricket\/\">Shahid Afridi<\/a>\u2019s record for most sixes in ODIs during the clash against South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Rohit entered the fixture requiring three sixes to become the leading six-hitter in ODIs and achieved the landmark in his 277th match.<\/p>\n<p>He surpassed Afridi\u2019s record in style with a trademark hook off Marco Jansen, clearing long leg on the fourth ball of the 19th over. Earlier, he had struck spinner Subrayen for back-to-back sixes on the first two deliveries of the 14th over.<\/p>\n<p>The right-handed batter entered the fixture needing three sixes to become the leading six-hitter in ODIs. The 38-year-old reached the landmark in his 277th match.<\/p>\n<h2>Most Sixes in ODIs<\/h2>\n<p>RG Sharma (IND): 2007\u20132025 \u2014 269 inns, 11,420 runs, 352 sixes<\/p>\n<p>Shahid Afridi (PAK): 1996\u20132015 \u2014 369 inns, 8,064 runs, 351 sixes<\/p>\n<p>Chris Gayle (WI): 1999\u20132019 \u2014 294 inns, 10,480 runs, 331 sixes<\/p>\n<p>Sanath Jayasuriya (SL): 1989\u20132011 \u2014 433 inns, 13,430 runs, 270 sixes<\/p>\n<p>MS Dhoni (IND): 2004\u20132019 \u2014 297 inns, 10,773 runs, 229 sixes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RANCHI: India batter Rohit Sharma etched his name into the history books, shattering former Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi\u2019s record for most sixes in ODIs during the clash against South Africa. Rohit entered the fixture requiring three sixes to become the leading six-hitter in ODIs and achieved the landmark in his 277th match. He surpassed Afridi\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":92510,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10191,2599,139],"class_list":["post-92509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-rohit-sharma","tag-south-africa","tag-india"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92511,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92509\/revisions\/92511"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}