Asia Cup 2023: India enter Super-4 stage, Rohit Sharma made 4 record in single match

Team India has entered the Super-4 stage of the Asia Cup 2023 tournament. Team India won by 10 wickets using the Duckworth-Lewis method in the match against Nepal at Pallakele International Cricket Stadium on Monday September 4. In this victory India enter Super-4 stage and Team India captain Rohit Sharma made 4 record in single match.

Captain Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill played an unbeaten half-century. Rohit Sharma scored an unbeaten 74 off just 59 balls with 6 fours and 5 sixes. Hitman has created many records against Nepal match. After a complete failure against Pakistan, Rohit Sharma smashed a half-century against Nepal. This is Rohit’s 49th ODI fifty and 1st half century since January 24, 2023.

In addition, Rohit Sharma has overtaken Virat Kohli as the highest run scorer for India in the Asia Cup 2023. Team India Captain Rohit Sharma crossed Virat Kohli’s mark of 1046 runs. Apart from that, he surpassed Sri Lankan great Kumar Sangakkara’s record of 1075 runs and climbed to the 2nd position in the all-time batting list of the Asia Cup tournament.

Only Sanath Jayasuriya has scored more runs in Asia Cup tournaments (both ODI and T20I formats) than Rohit Sharma. Rohit Sharma also holds the record of being the Indian who hit the most number of sixes (29) in Sri Lanka. Also, the Indian who has scored the most half-centuries in the history of Asia Cup. Rohit is the third player to hit the mark of 250 sixes in ODI cricket.

He became the only Indian to hit 5 or more sixes in an innings for the 30th time. Batting first in this match, Nepal team got off to a good start. Kushal Bhurtel (38) and Asif Sheikh (58) took full advantage of the poor fielding shown by the Indians in the beginning and put on a partnership of 65 runs for the first wicket.

At this stage, Ravindra Jadeja, who charmed the spin, took three wickets and gave a shock to the Nepal team. But Sompal Kami, who came in at number 8, scored 48 runs in 56 balls and crossed the team’s total of 200. Finally, Nepal were bowled out for 230 runs in 48.2 overs. For Team India, Jadeja and Siraj took 3 wickets each, while Shami, Hardik Pandya and Shardul took one wicket each.

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India vs Nepal match was stopped for some time due to rain when Team India got a target of 231 runs while batting. After the rain stopped, Team India was given a target of 145 runs in 23 overs according to the Duckworth-Lewis method. Chasing this easy target, unbeaten Rohit Sharma (74) and Shubman Gill (67) gave the team a huge victory by 10 wickets in 20.1 overs.