Bangladesh happens to be the favourite opponent for Indian opener Rohit Sharma as before the 40th game of the CWC 2019, the Hitman been the best performer against the Bangla Tigers. The Indian opener had scored 440 runs against Bangladesh with three centuries. This time also at the Edgbaston Cricket Ground, Birmingham the Indian opener lived up to his reputation and put on the attacking mode right from the first ball. Sharma scored a century from 90 balls and laced his inning with seven fours and five sixes. With this, he went on to become the new sixer king of the ODIs thereby surpassing MS Dhoni. The Indian opener also broke the record of Sachin Tendulkar during the match. India vs Bangladesh Live Cricket Score 40th ODI Match.

Rohit Sharma was a couple of sixes away from being the most number of six-hitter in the ODIs for India. Before the game, Rohit had 228 sixes under his belt. But with five sixes in the game, the Indian opener now has 230 maximums and has gone past MS Dhoni who has 228 sixes from 348 matches. The Hitman just took 213 games to overtake Dhoni. Rohit Sharma Scores 26th ODI Century During India vs Bangladesh World Cup 2019 Match; Netizens Hail Hitman.

Scoring 104 runs, Rohit Sharma became the second Indian to complete 500 runs in the World Cup. He was just 60 runs away from getting close to the 500-run mark. With this, he got past David Warner to be the highest –scorer of the World Cup 2019.  He scored 1000 runs in a calendar year for the second time. He had scored 1293 and 1030 runs respectively in 2018 and 2019.

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