Rohit Sharma, the star batter of Mumbai Indians, returned the form in excellent fashion as he scored 70 runs in just 46 delivery to guide his team to win against Sunrisers Hyderabad on Wednesday. This was a brilliant innings of the cricketer, which has struggled to score runs in the first half of IPL 2025. Rohit slammed three sixes during his knock and took a six -tall tally for MI to 260. As a result, Mumbai Indians have the highest number of sixes by any cricketer. He shattered the record organized by West Indies Cairon Pollard, who has 258 sixes. Here is a look at the top 5 six -hitters in the history of Mi –
260* (225 innings) – Rohit Sharma
258 (193 innings) – Kieron Pollard
127 (104 innings) – Suryakumar Yadav
115 (103 innings) – Hardik Pandya
106 (84 innings) – Ishaan Kishan
Meanwhile, Sunrisers Hyderabad head coach Daniel Vateri, after the game, admitted that the team’s strategy is completely backfined to maximize the powerplay.
“I think the toss was important. We wanted to bowl first because the situation was very different, (this was a different) wicket for the previous one.
“When you go there early, you are clearly trying to maximize that power play. And unfortunately we were not able to lose wickets, and we kept losing wickets. Once we felt that the surface was not what we had estimated, we needed to build a score of 180. Unfortunately, when you are difficult to do for four after playing power.”
SRH’s ultra-invasive intentions in Powerplay, which gave him success in the first season, proved his undo a wicket, which had spice for seamors. Deepak four and Trent Bault exploited situations with mantras of clinical new balls, and Vetori admitted to rebuild the team’s failure quickly.
“Understanding what is a good score, what is an equal score and being able to install it. Travis and Abhishek Sharma, when they go, they are very aggressive and they take the game and it causes a lot of success for us. When they are not successful, what we do for this season. But we just had a little late.”
(With IANS input)
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