Rohit Sharma, the captain of the Indian cricket team, reportedly received three traffic citations for exceeding the speed limit on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway. The incident occurred when the starting batter was traveling to Pune to meet the Indian team before their upcoming match against Bangladesh on Thursday, October 19.
Notably, India has defeated Australia, Afghanistan, and Pakistan in their first three games in the ICC Cricket World Cup 2023, and they will now face Bangladesh. Sharma allegedly exceeded the 200 km/h limit while driving, which led to the issuance of three online traffic citations for his car for careless driving.
A traffic department official reportedly voiced worries about the Indian captain’s careless driving on a busy highway during the World Cup and proposed that he should be riding in the team bus with a police escort. This was reported in Pune Mirror. According to the allegation, the Indian captain was also driving a Lamborghini with the number “264” representing his best ODI score.
The 36-year-old, who is currently India’s leading run scorer in the World Cup, has been in phenomenal form throughout the competition. With 150 runs scored in three innings at an average of 72.33 and a strike rate of 141.83, Rohit Sharma has scored 217 runs overall.
Rohit Sharma is in excellent form for the 2023 ODI World Cup.
He broke numerous records during his innings, starting with a spectacular 131 off 84 balls in the second game against Afghanistan. He amassed the most sixes in international cricket (562), the most hundreds in the ODI World Cup (7 hundreds), the joint-fastest to 1000 runs in the ODI World Cup (19 innings), the third-highest amount of hundreds in ODIs (31) and the fastest hundred by an Indian batter in World Cups (63 balls).
Then, to help India defeat Pakistan by seven wickets, the Indian captain played another outstanding innings of 86 off 63 balls. In order to assist his team win their fourth straight game against Bangladesh, Rohit Sharma will want to deliver another outstanding performance.
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