Rohit Sharma Becomes 4th Cricketer to Hit Sixes on First Two Balls of a Test Innings
Rohit Sharma Becomes 4th Cricketer to Hit Sixes on First Two Balls of a Test Innings
In a remarkable display of batting, indian cricket team captain rohit sharma opened his innings with back-to-back sixes during the second Test against bangladesh at Green Park, Kanpur, on september 30. The 38-year-old right-handed batsman struck Bangladeshi pacer Khaled ahmed for two sixes in the first two balls of the second over, making him the third indian and fourth cricketer globally to achieve this feat in men's Test cricket.
The first player to hit two sixes off the first two balls of a Test innings was former west indies cricketer Foffie Williams, who did so against england in 1948. sachin tendulkar matched this record in 2013 against Nathan Lyon in an India-Australia Test, while indian pacer umesh yadav followed suit in 2019 against South Africa's George Linde.
Players to hit sixes off their first two balls in a men's Test innings:
Foffie Williams (West Indies) vs. Jim Laker (England) in 1948
Sachin Tendulkar (India) vs. Nathan Lyon (Australia) in 2013
Umesh Yadav (India) vs. George Linde (South Africa) in 2019
Rohit Sharma (India) vs. Khaled Ahmed (Bangladesh) in 2024
Rohit scored 23 runs off 11 balls before being bowled by Mehidy Hasan Miraz. He also contributed to a strong opening partnership of 55 runs with yashasvi jaiswal, who made 72 runs. This quick start helped india set a new record for the fastest team fifty in Test history, achieving it in just three overs. They further broke the record for the fastest team hundred in Tests, reaching the milestone in 10.1 overs.
Jaiswal, the leading run-scorer for india in Tests this year, data-faced 51 balls and set a new benchmark for the most runs scored by an indian in a single edition of the World Test Championship, with 1166 runs in 11 matches. This surpassed Ajinkya Rahane’s previous record of 1059 runs in 18 matches during the 2019-21 WTC.