World Cup 2019: 4 All-time World Cup records broken in the tournament

#2 Most sixes in an innings - 17

Eoin Morgan demolished the Afghani bowlers

Hosts and eventual World Cup winners England battled Afghanistan in the match 24 of the 2019 World Cup. Since Eoin Morgan was nursing a back injury, he was supposed to sit out in that game. Nevertheless, the England skipper decided to play that game with the help of painkillers.

Batting first, the English captain joined Joe Root in the middle at the end of the 30th over with the scoreboard reading 164/2. After scoring 26 runs from his first 24 balls, Morgan started to bash the Afghanistan bowlers from the 36th over onwards. In particular, he went hard on Rashid Khan and smashed seven sixes off his bowling.

Morgan finished with 148 runs in just 71 balls with a tremendous strike rate of 208.45. In the process, he managed to hit 17 massive sixes and overtook Chris Gayle's record for the most sixes (16) in a World Cup innings. Besides, Morgan's record of 17 sixes is also the most by a batsman in an ODI inning.