Indian cricket workforce captain Rohit Sharma on Wednesday turned the primary Indian to attain seven world cup a whole bunch, surpassing the legendary Sachin Tendulkar throughout their Cricket World Cup 2023 conflict towards Afghanistan in New Delhi. Whereas Tendulkar recorded six centuries in as many editions of World Cups that he performed — 1992, 1996, 1999, 2003, 2007 and 2011, Rohit achieved the feat in solely three: 2015, 2019 and 2023. Rohit additionally holds the document of scoring most centuries (5) by any batter in a World Cup version — a feat that he achieved in 2019 in England.

Rohit’s ton towards Afghanistan was his thirty first total, taking him previous Australian legend Ricky Ponting. He’s now behind India’s Virat Kohli (47) and Tendulkar (49) within the historical past of ODI cricket.

Rohit additionally broke Kapil Dev’s (72) document of quickest ODI century for India in World Cup historical past, shifting into triple figures off simply 63 balls (12x4s, 4x6s).

In imperious type throughout India’s chase of 273 towards Afghanistan, Rohit additionally went previous West Indies’ Chris Gayle (553 sixes throughout codecs) to document most sixes hit in worldwide cricket throughout codecs.

Rohit accomplished his half-century off simply 30 balls — second quickest within the version thus far — whereas hitting three sixes and 7 fours to make 60 unbeaten off 32 balls on the finish of the eighth over.

Rohit unleashed his signature pull shot to hit Afghanistan bowler Naveen-Ul-Haq on the penultimate ball of the eighth over to overhaul Gayle. Pakistan’s Shahid Afridi is third within the checklist with total 476 sixes.

Within the course of, the Indian skipper additionally joined Australia’s David Warner in taking least variety of innings (19) to finish 1,000 runs in World Cup historical past.

Amongst different Indians, Tendulkar (20) and Sourav Ganguly (21) characteristic amongst these with quickest to 1,000 runs in World Cups.