{"id":303359,"date":"2025-12-07T14:26:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T14:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/303359\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T14:26:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T14:26:08","slug":"how-rohit-sharma-beat-shahid-afridi-to-become-the-king-of-sixes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/303359\/","title":{"rendered":"How Rohit Sharma beat Shahid Afridi to become The King of Sixes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/125801433.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The maximums began flowing when the boy from Mumbai\u2019s Borivali began opening the innings. You will be surprised by the margin by which he has beaten Afridi.<\/p>\n<p>To set the world record of 352 sixes, Rohit Sharma played the shot that perhaps will always be associated with him: an elegant pull that took the ball over the fence between deep square leg and deep fine leg.<br \/>With that shot he became the highest six-hitter ever in the One Day International format, taking him ahead of Pakistan\u2019s Shahid Afridi. More remarkably, he beat the Pakistani\u2019s record by nearly a 100 innings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The maximums began flowing when the boy from Mumbai\u2019s Borivali began opening the innings. You will be surprised&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,121732,121734,121731,121735,121737,121733,101,56,54,55,121736],"class_list":{"0":"post-303359","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-most-sixes-in-a-year","10":"tag-odi-cricket-statistics","11":"tag-rohit-sharma-batting-style","12":"tag-rohit-sharma-sixes-record","13":"tag-six-hitting-records-in-cricket","14":"tag-six-hitting-technique","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-unitedkingdom","19":"tag-world-record-sixes"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}