{"id":12063,"date":"2023-11-05T12:18:11","date_gmt":"2023-11-05T12:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/05\/mens-odi-wc-rohit-equals-ab-de-villiers-record-of-most-odi-sixes-in-a-calendar-year-n-f-times\/"},"modified":"2023-11-05T12:18:13","modified_gmt":"2023-11-05T12:18:13","slug":"mens-odi-wc-rohit-equals-ab-de-villiers-record-of-most-odi-sixes-in-a-calendar-year-n-f-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/05\/mens-odi-wc-rohit-equals-ab-de-villiers-record-of-most-odi-sixes-in-a-calendar-year-n-f-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Men\u2019s ODI WC: Rohit equals AB de Villiers record of most ODI sixes in a calendar year &#8211; N.F Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-502851\">&#13;<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-header post-tp-1-header\">\n<div class=\"single-featured\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content clearfix single-post-content\">\n<p>Kolkata: Indian skipper Rohit Sharma on Sunday equalled South Africa\u2019s AB de Villiers record for hitting the most ODI sixes in a calendar year during the ICC Men\u2019s ODI World Cup 2023 match against South Africa at the Eden Gardens.<\/p>\n<p>Rohit went past West Indies legend Chris Gayle, who now sits second on the list with 56 sixes in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old took 23 innings to reach the milestone, taking five more than de Villiers.<\/p>\n<p>Rohit hit Lungi Ngidi for two sixes during his 40-run innings to reach the 58 sixes mark before holing out to Temba Bavuma off Kagiso Rabada in the sixth over.<\/p>\n<p>Electing to bat first, India started very well as Rohit charged on the South African pacer, hitting them all around the ground as India scored fifty in 4.3 overs.<\/p>\n<p>India finished the powerplay on 91 for 1. This is the second-most runs South Africa have conceded in the first 10 overs in the tournament. Against Sri Lanka, they had given away 94 for 2.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of writing this report, India were 223\/3 in 36 overs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(IANS)\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n    var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n    if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n    js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n    js.src = \"\n    fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n  }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] &#13; &#13; &#13; Kolkata: Indian skipper Rohit Sharma on Sunday equalled South Africa\u2019s AB de Villiers record for hitting the most ODI sixes in a calendar year during the ICC Men\u2019s ODI World Cup 2023 match against South Africa at the Eden Gardens. Rohit went past West Indies legend Chris Gayle, who now sits [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12065,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12063\/revisions\/12065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}