Stats and facts: Records tumble as Rohit Sharma dispatches Australia’s bowlers

India’s captain played the match-defining knock in the battle between the world’s top-two ranked sides, hitting 92 off 41 balls in a top-order assault that put his team in control of the match right from the get-go.

We take a look at some of the key stats and the big numbers from Rohit’s latest T20 World Cup masterclass:

Rohit is now the all-time leading scorer in Men’s T20 Internationals, leapfrogging Babar Azam into top spot with 4165 runs in the format for India.

Only compatriot Virat Kohli, who made a duck against Australia, has scored more runs at T20 World Cups than Rohit, with 1207 and 1154 respectively.

His 92 also saw him become the leading scorer for India at this tournament with 191 runs in six innings, ahead of Rishabh Pant (167) and Suryakumar Yadav (149).

Rohit brought up his half-century off just 19 balls, making that the fastest of his T20 career and the fastest by any batter in a T20I against Australia, bettering the 20-ball effort by Yuvraj Singh in 2007.

He becomes the seventh player and third Indian to reach 50 inside 20 deliveries, with Yuvraj’s extraordinary 12-ball effort against England in 2007 still five-balls clear as the quickest of all time.

The India skipper slammed eight sixes in his innings, the most ever by an Indian batter in a T20 World Cup innings, and the most by any batter in a T20I against Australia.

His effort also took his personal career tally to 203 sixes in T20 Internationals, making him the first player of any nationality to go past 200.

Rohit’s eight maximums made up a large portion of his team’s 15 total sixes - the most ever by an India team in a men’s T20 World Cup game, bettering the previous record set just two days previously against Bangladesh.

That total of 15 sixes is also the third-highest by any team at a T20 World Cup.

92 is Rohit’s top individual score at a T20 World Cup and the second-highest by an Indian batter after Suresh Raina, who scored a century against South Africa in 2010 on the same ground.

Monday’s loss left Australia relying on the result between Afghanistan and Bangladesh in the final game of the Super Eight stage to avoid exiting the tournament.

It was a torrid first-innings for the Aussies, with 205/5 equalling the most runs they have ever conceded in a T20 World Cup game.

Only the outstanding Josh Hazlewood (1/14 from 4) returned figures with an economy in single figures, with Mitchell Starc on the receiving end of one particularly brutal assault from Rohit Sharma in the third over.

The 29 runs he conceded in that over makes it the most expensive of his international career and the second-most expensive over ever by an Australian in men’s T20Is.

Only Glenn Maxwell has conceded more in an over (30) for Australia in T20Is, also against India, in 2023.