Rohit Sharma became the sixer king of international cricket.

Delhi: India’s team captain Rohit Sharma In the game versus Afghanistan, it made history. While attempting to score 273 runs, Rohit Sharma broke a world record. The current sixer king is now Rohit Sharma. In Tests, ODIs, and T20Is, Rohit Sharma has struck the most sixes in the history of international cricket. In this sense, Rohit has surpassed the mark set by former West Indies batsman Chris Gayle.

Rohit has hit 77 sixes in T-20, 182 in Test and 296 sixes in ODI.

Rohit Sharma: 554 sixes*.

Chris Gayle : 553 sixes.

Shahid Afridi : 476 sixes.

Brendon McCullum : 398 sixes.

Martin Guptill : 383 sixes.

Rohit also completed 1000 ODI runs in this innings, he achieved this record in 19 innings.

Least innings to 1,000 runs in World Cups

19 – David Warner

19 – Rohit Sharma

20 – Sachin Tendulkar

20 – AB de Villiers

21 – Sir Vivian Richards

21 – Sourav Ganguly

Meanwhile, Rohit Sharma is the only fourth Indian batter after Tendulkar, Kohli, and Ganguly to amass 1000 runs in the World Cups.