Hitman became more explosive as soon as the burden of captaincy was removed

IPL 2024: Rohit Sharma, famous as Hitman, is playing as a batsman for Mumbai Indians team this time. Mumbai franchise had handed over the command of the team to Hardik Pandya in his place just a few days before the start of IPL. Hardik was the captain of Gujarat Titans. This time the fans are very angry with the removal of Rohit, who led Mumbai Indians to five titles under his captaincy, but this decision is proving to be better for the Hitman. Rohit has been playing in IPL since the first season, but this time his run scoring rate has become better than before. He is scoring runs at a strike rate of 167.74, which is better than all the seasons of IPL. Against Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB), he scored 38 runs in 24 balls with the help of three fours and three sixes. In this match, Rohit gave a good start to his team by making a partnership of 101 runs for the first wicket with Ishan Kishan, which made it easy for Mumbai Indians to reach the target.

This time more than 75 percent of the runs have been scored from boundaries.

Rohit has scored 156 runs in five matches for Mumbai Indians in this season of IPL. During this period, he scored 128 runs with the help of 17 fours and 10 sixes, which is more than 75 percent of his total runs.

Rohit is the only batsman to hit 100 sixes

Hitmate Rohit Sharma has always been the number one batsman in hitting sixes. He also created history against RCB on Thursday. Rohit has become the first batsman in the world to complete 100 sixes in the shorter format of T-20 at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. Rohit played a stormy inning of 38 runs while chasing the big target of 197 runs against RCB. If we talk about the batsmen who have hit the most number of sixes in Wankhede, Kieron Pollard is at second place. Pollard has hit a total of 91 sixes in 61 matches.

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Rohit is close to 500th six in the shorter format of T-20.

Rohit Sharma has also come close to hitting his 500th six in T-20. Rohit has hit 497 sixes so far. However, if we talk about international cricket, he has hit 597 sixes. If Rohit is successful in hitting three more sixes in the next match of IPL, he will become the batsman to hit five hundred sixes in T-20.