Rohit Sharma creates new record after India's win over England in first T20I

Under Rohit Sharma, India won the first T20I against England at the Rose Bowl in Southampton on Thursday. It was their 13th consecutive win in the shortest format of the game under him. Ever since he was asked to lead the Indian team, Sharma has been doing a superb job. It is to be noted that he had to miss the all-important fifth test against England.

However, he has recovered in good time to lead India in the white-ball games. Under Rohit Sharma, India have turned a new leaf in terms of their T20I fortunes. When the baton was passed on to Rohit, He made sure that India continue their dominance by making sure that the country has won a staggering 13 consecutive matches.

Rohit went ahead of former Afghanistan captain Asghar Afghan's record to claim pole position in this regard. The Indian team have won 25 out of the 29 T20I matches where Rohit has led them. On a personal front, The star opener on a personal front became only the third Indian batter to breach the 1000-run barrier in T20I Internationals.

In the meanwhile, Hardik Pandya's flame has rekindled. The Star Indian all-rounder continued his good form from the Indian T20 League 2022, where he had led Gujrat to the title. In the first T20I, he broke England s back with an outstanding all-round performance with bat and ball where he scored 51 runs with the bat, and picked up four wickets with the ball to end up with superb figures of 4-33.

"Great performance from ball one. All batters showed intent. Although the pitch was good, we played good shots and never got ahead of the game. You got to make use of those six overs in the powerplay. There is a certain approach we want to take in the powerplay. You got to back yourself in this game, sometimes it comes off, sometimes it doesn't. The whole batting unit needs to understand the direction the team is taking and the guys were spot on today. I was impressed with his (Hardik) bowling. He wants to do that a lot more in the future, bowled quick and used his variations too. Of course his batting is there for us to see. That's the reason we wanted to bat (ball swinging under lights). Sometimes it does swing in the evenings and we wanted to utilize that. Both the new ball bowlers used the swing and stopped their batters. We were sloppy on the field. Those catches should have been taken. Pretty sure we will field pretty well in the coming games," said Rohit Sharma during the post-match presentation.