Rohit Sharma’s missed records in Asia Cup 2025 after T20I exit

Rohit Sharma retired from T20I cricket in 2024 after helping India emerge victorious in the T20 World Cup for the first time since 2007. The right-handed batter became only the second Indian captain to win the T20 World Cup.

Following the monumental triumph, Rohit announced his retirement from the shortest format of the game in international cricket. Since then, Rohit has played in the Indian Premier League (IPL) for the Mumbai Indians, while the likes of Abhishek Sharma, Shubman Gill, and Sanju Samson have been opening the batting for India in T20I cricket.

Rohit had a phenomenal T20I career for India. He also played some surreal knocks in the Asia Cup. Let’s take a look at some of the records that could have been broken had he played the ongoing edition of the continental tournament in the United Arab Emirates.

Rohit Sharma’s missed records in Asia Cup 2025 after T20I exit

Most Runs in T20 Asia Cups

Virat Kohli leads the charts for the highest run-scorers in the T20 Asia Cups. He has amassed 429 runs in nine innings at an average of 85.80 and a strike rate of 132. Rohit Sharma is fourth on that list, behind Kohli, Mohammad Rizwan, and Babar Hayat.

The Indian ODI skipper has scored 271 runs in nine innings at an average of 30.11 and a strike rate of 141.14. He needed just 159 runs to get past Kohli’s tally. India are considered one of the favourites to win the Asia Cup. They are expected to at least make it to the Super-Four stage of the tournament. This would have given Rohit six matches to become the highest run-getter in T20 Asia Cups.

Most 50-plus scores in T20 Asia Cups

This is another record held by Kohli in T20 Asia Cups. In 10 innings, he has registered four 50-plus scores, most in the tournament. This includes three half-centuries and a brilliant century against Afghanistan in the 2022 edition of the tournament.

Rohit, on the other hand, has two 50-plus scores to his name in T20 Asia Cups. This includes a highest score of 83 off 55 balls, which he scored in 2016 against Bangladesh in Mirpur. Had Rohit played in the 17th edition of the Asia Cup, he would have had a great chance of surpassing Kohli’s record of four 50-plus scores.

Most sixes in T20 Asia Cups

Babar Hayat, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, and Najibullah Zadran are tied at the top with 13 sixes each in T20 Asia Cups. While Hayat and Gurbaz are playing the 2025 edition of the tournament, Zadran will not be able to add more sixes to his name as he has not been picked in Afghanistan’s squad.

Rohit has hit 12 sixes in T20 Asia Cups. He would have been the favourite to break the record for the most sixes in T20 Asia Cup history. The 38-year-old holds the record for the most sixes hit by a batter in international cricket.