Only 4 batters have struck two sixes off the first two balls of a Test innings.
Rohit Sharma matched the feat in the Kanpur Test against Bangladesh.
The Indian captain smashed Khaled Ahmed for back-to-back sixes on Day 4.
West Indies’ Foffie Williams was the first person to achieve the feat in 1948.
Williams hit two sixes in a row off England spinner Jim Laker.
Rohit is the third Indian to start a Test innings with two consecutive sixes.
Sachin Tendulkar was next to script the record against Australia in 2013.
Tendulkar hammered two sixes off Nathan Lyon.
Umesh Yadav equalled the record against South Africa in 2019.
The ex-India pacer opened his account with two sixes off George Linde.