6,6,6,6,6,6… 13 fours, 5 sixes, Rohit Sharma’s bat roared in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy while playing for Mumbai, scored a century in 45 balls

Rahul Tiwari

khelja|15-09-2024

Rohit Sharma: Indian cricket team captain Rohit Sharma is currently one of the most important players of the team. At present, he is busy preparing for the series against Bangladesh and is practicing hard. Rohit Sharma is famous for hitting long sixes and fans are hoping that he will play an innings full of sixes against Bangladesh.

When Rohit Sharma's bat roared, he hit a century in 45 balls

Rohit Sharma
13 fours, 5 sixes, Rohit Sharma's bat roared in Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy while playing for Mumbai, hit a century in 45 balls 2" srcset="https://cdn.shengboglobal.com/Upload/File/2024/09/15/1623015419.jpg 1024w, https://hindi.sportzwiki.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Untitled-design-7-26-300x169.jpg 300w, https://hindi.sportzwiki.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Untitled-design-7-26-768x432.jpg 768w, https://hindi.sportzwiki.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Untitled-design-7-26-400x225.jpg 400w, https://hindi.sportzwiki.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Untitled-design-7-26-150x84.jpg 150w, https://hindi.sportzwiki.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Untitled-design-7-26.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 100%) 100vw, 1024px"/>
Rohit Sharma

In the year 2006-07, Mumbai's star batsman and currently Team India's captain Rohit Sharma won the hearts of cricket lovers with his excellent performance in a match played under the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy.

In this match played against Gujarat, Rohit scored his century in just 45 balls.

During this, he hit 13 fours and 5 sixes and gave Mumbai a resounding victory. Due to this innings of Rohit, Mumbai won by a big margin. After this performance, he came into the eyes of the selectors of Team India. Since then, Rohit made his name as a major player in Indian cricket.

Rohit Sharma hit 13 fours and 5 sixes in this innings

In this match, Rohit Sharma adopted an aggressive approach right from the beginning while batting. He kept the pressure on the bowlers from the beginning and showered fours and sixes on them.

Rohit hit 13 fours and 5 sixes in his innings, which helped Mumbai's team chase the target easily.

The bowlers had no answer to Rohit's aggressive innings, and he foiled every attempt of the Gujarat bowlers. This innings of Rohit is still counted among the best innings of his early career, in which he proved his aggressive batting prowess and came to the notice of the selectors.

The target was achieved in the 18th over itself

Mumbai had got a target of 182 runs in this match, which the team achieved in the 18th over itself. Thanks to this brilliant century innings of Rohit Sharma, Mumbai won this match against Gujarat by 5 wickets.

Rohit, who came at number three while chasing the target, scored runs at a fast pace from the beginning and made the job of the batsmen standing at the other end easy.

Due to this innings of Rohit, Mumbai team had no problem in reaching the target and they achieved this target in 17.3 overs. The match proved to be a turning point in Rohit Sharma's career, which played an important role in getting him a permanent place in the Indian cricket team.

Latest Newsmore
1

Ranji Trophy 2025-26: J&K skipper Paras Dogra confident of winning maiden title this season

12-Nov-2025 • CricTracker
2

Top 5 Cricketers With Most Player Of The Series Awards In ODIs Ft. Virat Kohli

12-Nov-2025 • ABP Live Sports
3

Devon Conway slams his ninth T20I fifty at home: Stats

12-Nov-2025 • Gaurav Tripathi
4

What Is ODI Super League? The Scrapped Tournament That Could Be Revived

12-Nov-2025 • ABP Live Sports
5

Kiwi Resilience Shows Through NZ Beat West Indies by 9 Runs, Lead Series 2-1

12-Nov-2025 • Himanshu Patel