Abhishek's 47-ball hundred helped India beat Zimbabwe in the second of the five-match T20I series in Harare on Sunday, July 07. while trying to play a big shot on his T20I debut -- the first match of the series on Saturday in Harare. With the next game scheduled for Sunday, the 23-year-old from Punjab had very little time to reflect on what happened in the series opener. Abhishek came out all guns blazing in the 2nd T20I, setting the tone from the word go. India lost captain Shubman Gill cheaply on Sunday, but Abhishek got his first runs in international cricket with a six against Brian Bennett. Abhishek Sharma got to his fifty with a six in the 11th over in which he tore into Dion Myers, collecting 28 runs. Incidentally, Abhishek went from 82 to 100 with a hat-trick of sixes against Wellington Masakadza, bringing up his landmark in style. Abhishek hit as many as eight sixes and seven boundaries in a whirlwind knock that helped India post 234 for 2 in 20 overs. "Sixer King? Well, I don't feel like that. I think it's all the hard work that I have done," Abhishek Sharma told the press on Sunday, playing down the tag that was offered to him. "Special thanks to my dad who always encouraged me to play lofted shots even when I was a kid. Usually, coaches don't allow you to play lofted shots much. My dad used to tell me 'if you want to play a lofted shot, it should go out of the ground'. For me, from my childhood, I have realised that if I'm confident, I like to express myself," the left-handed opener said.   It was no surprise that Abhishek Sharma hit the most sixes in the IPL 2024 season. The SunRisers Hyderabad star, who opened with Australia's Travis Head, hit 42 sixes, four more than second-placed Heinrich Klaasen and Virat Kohli.