Desk. Rohit Sharma has many records in his name, but one of them seems to be broken soon. Former Indian team captain and T20 World Cup 2024 champion Rohit Sharma has hit the most number of sixes in T20 Internationals, but now the UAE batsman is close to surpassing him. There should be no surprise if this world record is broken in this year’s World Cup.

The record of hitting most sixes in T20 International is in the name of Rohit Sharma. He has hit 205 sixes in his career after playing 159 matches. He is the only and first batsman in the world to have hit more than 200 sixes in T20 International. The special thing is that this is the first time that Team India is playing a T20 World Cup without Rohit Sharma. When the T20 World Cup was played in the year 2007, Rohit Sharma was there and when the Indian team became champion in the year 2024, he was the captain. After winning the same final match, Rohit had announced his retirement from T20 International.

Meanwhile, let’s talk about that batsman, who has come close to Rohit Sharma’s record by batting brilliantly. He is Muhammad Wasim of UAE. So far, he has played 94 T20 International matches and hit 93 sixes. That means we have come very close to Rohit. By the time the New Zealand vs UAE match was to start on Tuesday, Muhammad Wasim had hit 190 sixes. After this, in this match also, Wasim hit 3 sixes and took his number to 193. Wasim scored 66 runs on 45 balls in this match. This included four fours and 3 sixes. He was not even out till the end. When a batsman remains unbeaten for 20 overs while opening the innings, then it becomes clear how brilliantly he must have batted.

Not only this, Muhammad Wasim has become the first UAE batsman to score a half-century twice in the T20 World Cup. Earlier, he had played an inning of 50 runs in 2022. He could not play the 2024 World Cup, but now making a comeback this year, he managed to show an amazing performance in the very first match. He has also become the batsman who has played the most number of innings for UAE. Thanks to Muhammad Wasim, UAE scored 173 runs at the loss of 6 wickets in 20 overs against New Zealand in this match. Which can be called a respectable score.