Stats: Rohit Sharma tops the charts of most sixes in a calendar year

The Twenty20 cricket has changed the scenario of the gentleman’s game as the slew of records were broken by batsmen in particular and this time around it’s been the stand-in skipper of Team India Rohit Sharma, who has the knack of clearing the boundary line with the minimum of the effort.

In the second match of the Twenty20 game of the three-match series, the right-handed batsman Rohit (64* sixes) has eclipsed past South African batsman AB de Villiers in terms of most number of sixes in the calendar year of the top-flight cricket.

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With this brutal knock, Rohit has simultaneously become the first Indian to score most sixes in the calendar year.

Being in the wondrous form, Rohit was sitting at 54 sixes in the calendar year before Indore fixture when India was leading the T20I series 1-0

The list also includes the Windies swashbuckling opening batsman Chris Gayle, who has been the brute force when it comes to clearing the boundary ropes.

The left-handed batsman Gayle smashed 59 sixes in 2012 calendar year which was a record until 2015 when de Villiers went past the remarkable milestone.

Earlier, the record was held by de Villiers, who can smash the bowlers all around the park.

The right-handed de Villiers achieved the feat in 2015 when he smashed 63 sixes in the international cricket.

After equalling the record of joint-fastest hundred in T20Is alongside the Proteas David Miller off 35 balls, Rohit’s 10th six saw him easing past de Villiers to sit well on the throne which his enormous extension while flexing the muscles.

While mauling the Lions bowlers, Rohit smashed 43-ball 118 which further saw him smashing 12 boundaries. He scored at the average of 274.42.

As far as the batting is concerned, Rohit amassed 108 runs in boundaries which show how the hosts plundered the runs at Holkar Stadium in Indore on December 22 (Friday).

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On the other side, Rohit forged the partnership of 165 runs for the first-wicket in 12.4 overs, before perishing on the bowling of Dushmantha Chameera when Akila Dananjaya completed a simple catch at the short third-man region when the slower bouncer got better of him.

Here’s the list of most number of maximums in the calendar year:

2017: 64* – Rohit Sharma

2015: 63 – AB de Villiers

2012: 59 – Chris Gayle

2011: 57 – Shane Watson