Sanju Samson on Verge of breaking MS Dhoni Record: India’s opening batsman Sanju Samson can break a big record of MS Dhoni during the five-match T20 International series against England starting on Wednesday at Eden Gardens in Kolkata. India’s opening batsman Sanju Samson can break a big record of MS Dhoni during the five-match T20 International series against England starting on Wednesday at Eden Gardens in Kolkata. This is India’s last bilateral series before leaving for the ICC Champions Trophy to be held in February-March. This is India’s first limited overs series of this year.
After winning the title of ICC T20 World Cup 2024, Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli had withdrawn their names from the shortest format of the game, after which Sanju Samson confirmed his place as the opening batsman in India’s T20 team. Have done. Sanju Samson had earlier performed brilliantly against Zimbabwe. Recently, he also created history in four T20 International matches against South Africa.
Samson will leave behind Dhawan, Dhoni and Raina
The Indian team will try to make a great start to this year by performing brilliantly against England. During this series, Sanju Samson will be eyeing to leave MS Dhoni behind in the list of batsmen who have hit most sixes in T20 International for India. Dhoni has hit 52 sixes in 98 matches for India. Whereas Sanju Samson has hit 46 sixes in 37 matches.
If Sanju Samson hits 12 more sixes during this series, he will leave Shikhar Dhawan (50 sixes), Mahendra Singh Dhoni (52 sixes) and Suresh Raina (58 sixes) together and will hit the most number of T20 International sixes for India. Will come at seventh place in the list of batsmen.
Most sixes for India in T20 Internationals
The batsman who has hit the most sixes in T20 International for India is Rohit Sharma. Rohit Sharma has hit 205 sixes in 151 innings of 159 matches played for India. Rohit is the only batsman in T20 International who has hit more than 200 sixes in the shortest format of cricket. After this, Suryakumar Yadav is at second place in the list.
Suryakumar Yadav has hit 145 sixes in 74 innings of 78 matches. After this, Virat Kohli is at third place in the list. Virat Kohli has hit 124 sixes in 125 T20 Internationals for India. At the fourth position is KL Rahul, who has hit 99 sixes in 72 matches. After this is Hardik Pandya in the list. Hardik Pandya has hit 88 sixes in 109 matches.
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