India's Sharma hits most sixes in a Test
Rohit Sharma has broken the record for most sixes in a Test, taking India to a chance of victory after dominating day four of their opener against South Africa.
Rohit, in his first Test as an opener, followed his six first-innings sixes with seven in the second knock. His 127 helped India to race their way to 4(dec)-323 at Visakhapatnam.
That set South Africa an unlikely 395 runs to win or just over three sessions to bat out a draw on the final day. And, they lost first-innings centurion Dean Elgar cheaply, lbw to Ravindra Jadeja, as they reached stumps on Saturday at 1-11 after nine overs.
The Proteas were finally dismissed for 431 on Saturday as Ravi Ashwin took the final two wickets to end with 7-145 and secure India a 71-run first-innings lead.
Rohit took centre stage again, recording his second century of the contest off 133 deliveries and hitting three-successive sixes off Dane Piedt to surpass Wasim Akram's record of 12 sixes in a Test.
Rohit, who earlier put on 169 for the second wicket with Cheteshwar Pujara (81), was stumped off Keshav Maharaj for 127 but India piled on another 84 runs before captain Virat Kohli declared.
