Delhi: Hitman Rohit Sharma, the current captain of the Indian cricket team, has created history by defeating South Africa in the final match of the T20 World Cup 2024. He has become the second captain of India to win the T20 World Cup trophy for India. With this victory, Rohit Sharma has announced his retirement from T20 International cricket.

Today, through this blog post, we are going to tell you about 5 such innings played by Rohit Sharma, famous as Hitman in the cricket world, in T20 International cricket, which are counted among the best innings of his T20 career.

Rohit Sharma's international T20 career has been like this

Rohit played his debut match against England in the 2007 T20 World Cup but Rohit Sharma did not get a chance to bat in this match.

Talking about Rohit Sharma's first innings in T20 cricket, he played against South Africa in the 2007 T20 World Cup. He played an unbeaten half-century in his first innings of T20 cricket against South Africa and played an important role in taking Team India to the semi-final stage of the 2007 T20 World Cup.

Rohit Sharma has played 159 matches in his T20 International career. Rohit Sharma has scored 4231 runs while batting in 151 innings. During this time, Rohit Sharma has played 32 half-centuries and 5 centuries for the team. At this time when Rohit Sharma has announced his retirement from T20 International, Rohit Sharma has the most runs as a batsman at the international level.

5 memorable innings of Rohit Sharma in T20I cricket

1. Scored an unbeaten 50 against South Africa in his debut innings

Irfan Pathan, Gautam Gambhir, Yuvraj Singh are often remembered as the star performers of the team that won the T20 World Cup 2007. The T20 World Cup 2007 is also remembered as the beginning of Dhoni's captaincy era, but many Indian cricket fans are not aware that if Rohit Sharma had not played a half-century innings for the team in the Super 8 match against South Africa in 2007, the team might not have qualified for the semi-finals.

By scoring an unbeaten 50 off 40 balls in his first innings of international T20 cricket, Rohit Sharma played a key role in helping Team India reach a respectable score of 153 runs at the end of the innings. Due to which, Team India defeated South Africa by a big margin and qualified for the semi-final stage.

2. First T20 century as captain against Sri Lanka in 2017

The second best innings of Rohit Sharma's T20 international cricket career was seen against Sri Lanka in the year 2017. In that match, Hitman scored an innings of 118 runs. Rohit Sharma faced just 43 balls to play a century innings of 118 runs. During that innings, he hit 12 fours and 10 sixes. Rohit Sharma completed his century in just 35 balls in this innings, which was the fastest century in the international T20 format for a long time.

3. Unbeaten 100 against England in 2018

One of Rohit Sharma's brilliant T20 International innings was also seen in the year 2018. In the third match of the T20 series against England in 2018, Rohit Sharma played an unbeaten innings of 100 runs in 56 balls for Team India and played an important role in Team India winning its first T20 series on England's soil. Due to which Rohit Sharma was also awarded the Man of the Series award for this T20 series.

4. 121 runs innings while making a comeback in T20 International cricket

After Rohit Sharma's defeat in the semi-final match against England in the T20 World Cup 2022, the BCCI did not give him a chance in the squad selected for any series for the Indian team in International T20 cricket for the next 14 months, but in early 2024, Rohit Sharma was selected as the captain for the 3 T20 match series against Afghanistan.

The first two matches against Afghanistan did not go well for Rohit Sharma as a batsman and Rohit was returning to the pavilion on a score of 0 in the first two matches. In the third match of the T20 series, Rohit Sharma played an innings of 121 runs against Afghanistan.

The innings of 121 runs played against Afghanistan is the biggest innings of his international T20 career. The importance of Rohit Sharma's innings in this match increases because the other 4 batsmen of the team were not able to score even 5 runs individually in this match, but after that, by forming a partnership with Rinku Singh, Team India finally gave a clean sweep to Afghanistan in the match as well as the series.

5. 92 runs innings against Australia in T20 World Cup 2024

Talking about the fifth best innings of Rohit Sharma's T20 International career, it also includes his 92-run innings played against Australia in the T20 World Cup 2024.

Rohit Sharma scored 92 runs in this innings with the help of 7 fours and 8 sixes in 41 balls. By defeating a big team like Australia in the final Super 8 match of the T20 World Cup 2024, the Indian team topped its group and qualified for the semi-final stage.

Due to this innings, Rohit Sharma has become the first Indian captain to win the Man of the Match award as a captain in the T20 World Cup. By defeating Australia in this match, Rohit Sharma not only knocked the team out of the Super 8 stage but also avenged the defeat against Australia in the final match of the World Cup 2023.