KL Rahul once again played an important role in finishing the match in the first ODI against New Zealand. Rahul played an unbeaten inning of 29 runs on 21 balls in this match played in Vadodara. During this, he hit 2 fours and 1 skyscraper six. He finished the match by hitting all these boundaries on the last three balls of the 49th over of the innings. KL Rahul’s style of finishing the match was stylish. He led India to victory by hitting a six. With this winning six, KL Rahul has broken a big record of Virat Kohli.
We defeated the world number 1 team…what is the New Zealand captain proud of?
This is a record for scoring ‘winning six’ in Indian ODI cricket. Virat Kohli has done this feat 5 times in his career, whereas Rahul has overtaken Kohli for the 6th time by hitting a winning six. With this, KL Rahul has become the second batsman to hit the most number of winning sixes for India in ODIs.
India wrote a new history by chasing 300+ targets, became the first team to do so
At number one in this list is the name of the player who is called the best finisher in the world. Yes, MS Dhoni…Mahi has made India win ODI matches by hitting winning sixes a total of 9 times in his career. Now there is a difference of only three winning sixes between Rahul and Dhoni.
Indian players who have hit winning sixes most number of times in ODI
9 times – MS Dhoni
6 times – KL Rahul*
5 times – Virat Kohli
2 times – Harbhajan Singh
1 time – Sachin Tendulkar
1 time – Shreyas Iyer
1 time – Sanju Samson
1 time – Akshar Patel
1 time – Rohit Sharma
1 time – Yuvraj Singh
1 time – Ravi Ashwin
1 time – Ravindra Jadeja
1 time – Saurabh Tiwari
(data from 2001)
Talking about the match, after losing the toss and opting to bat first, the New Zealand team scored 300 runs on the board at the loss of 8 wickets in the stipulated 50 overs. There was a partnership of 117 runs for the first wicket between Devon Conway and Henry Nicholas, at that time it seemed that the Kiwi team could easily cross the score of 350, but due to the poor performance of the middle order, the team stopped at 300. Daryl Mitchell played the highest innings of 84 runs. Team India, which was chasing the target of 301, did not get a good start, Rohit Sharma was out on a personal score of 26. However, after this, Virat Kohli, who came to support captain Shubman Gill, made a century partnership for the second wicket. Gill scored 56 runs and Kohli scored 93 runs. Coming at number-4, Shreyas Iyer also played an inning of 49 runs. Harshit Rana also made this target easy for India by playing an inning of 29 runs. Whereas KL Rahul finished the match by scoring 29 unbeaten runs.
