 "Rohit Sharma has now hit the joint second-most sixes in T20 World Cup history. AP")
India maintained their unbeaten record in the 2024 T20 World Cup and put themselves in leading position to reach the semi-finals of the competition. Rohit Sharma-captained side thrashed Bangladesh by 50 runs on Saturday to be on the brink of the next round.
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Being asked to bat, Rohit Sharma (23 off 11) and Virat Kohli (37 off 28) played knocks to begin things and kept the runs flowing. Rishabh Pant (36 off 24) and Shivam Dube (34 off 24) started slowly but picked up pace as things moved along. Top-scoring India’s effort was Hardik Pandya who scored 50 runs from 27 balls as India posted 196/5.
Bangladesh started aggressively as well, but Pandya broke the partnership. Jasprit Bumrah (2/13) was at his miserly best, but it was Kuldeep Yadav (3/19) who broke the back of the chase, and even with Rishad Hossain (24 off 10) trying his best to increase the run rate, Bangladesh still fell short.
A look at the stats from India vs Bangladesh in T20 World Cup:
13 - India hit 13 sixes during their innings which is most by them in a single inning at a T20 World Cup. The previous highest was 11 when Yuvraj Singh had hit six sixes against Stuart Broad of England in 2007
Impact Shorts
More Shorts40 - Rohit Sharma joined David Warner with second-most sixes in T20 World Cups. Chris Gayle has most (63).
50 - Shakib al Hasan became the first to take 50 wickets in T20 World Cups. Retired Shahid Afridi with 39 is second.
3000 - Virat Kohli has now aggregated 3000 runs in World Cups (ODI and T20I). He is the first player to this feat
2 - Hardik Pandya became the second India, after Kohli, to score a fifty and pick a wicket in a T20 World Cup match
196 - India’s total of 196 was the third-highest for them in T20 World Cup history. It is also the biggest in Antigua
12 - Arshdeep Singh has struck 12 times in the ongoing T20 World Cup. It is the joint-most for India in a single edition. RP Singh had taken as many in 2007
12 - Jasprit Bumrah has bowled the most maidens in T20I cricket among bowlers of Full Test-Playing Members