Indian batter Rohit Sharma on Sunday became the highest-run scorer in the T20I format of the game.
Rohit accomplished this feat during India’s Asia Cup 2022 campaign opener against Pakistan in Dubai. In the eighth over of India’s innings bowled by Mohammed Nawaz, Rohit hit it big over the long-on region with impeccable timing, sending the ball for a six. With this, he became the highest run-scorer in the shortest format of the game.
Though as far as his own innings in the match is concerned, he did not last long and struggled to showcase his usual attacking style of batting. He was dismissed by Nawaz for 12 off 18 balls, which consisted of only one six.
Now he has a total of 3,499 runs across 125 innings in 133 games at an average of 32.10. He has four centuries and 27 half-centuries to his name in the shortest format, with the best individual score of 118.
He has gone past New Zealand batter Martin Guptill, who currently has 3,497 runs under his belt.
They are followed by Indian batter Virat Kohli (3,343 runs), Ireland opener Paul Stirling (3,011 runs), Australian opener Aaron Finch (2,855 runs), and Pakistani star Babar Azam (2,696 runs).
India will play against Hong Kong in their second match of Asia Cup 2022 on 31 August.