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[Saba Sports News] Indian Cricket Team captain Rohit Sharma received three traffic challans for speeding on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway while heading to join the Indian team in Pune for their upcoming match against Bangladesh on Thursday, October 19.
Despite India’s victories in their first three matches of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2023 against Australia, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, Sharma’s speeding led to the issuance of three online traffic challans for reckless driving, as he was reportedly driving at speeds exceeding 200 km/h.
A report in Pune Mirror highlighted concerns from a traffic department official about Sharma’s reckless driving during the World Cup, suggesting he should travel in the team bus with a police escort. Notably, Sharma was driving a Lamborghini with a number plate displaying his highest ODI score of ‘264’.
Despite the traffic incident, the 36-year-old has been in sensational form in the ongoing World Cup, emerging as India’s top run-scorer with 217 runs from three innings at an average of 72.33 and a strike rate of 141.83, including one hundred and one fifty.
In particular, Sharma’s outstanding performance in the second game against Afghanistan, where he scored a sensational 131 off 84 balls, saw him break several records, including the fastest hundred by an Indian batter in World Cups (63 balls), the most sixes in international cricket (562), the most hundreds in ODI World Cup (7 hundreds), joint-fastest to 1000 runs in ODI World Cup (19 innings), and the third-most number of hundreds in ODIs (31).
Following this, the Indian skipper played another remarkable innings of 86 off 63 balls against arch-rivals Pakistan, helping India secure a seven-wicket victory. Sharma will aim to continue his excellent form in the upcoming game against Bangladesh, as India seeks its fourth consecutive win in the tournament.