Rohit Sharma
IND vs Eng: The ODI series between India and England continues. After winning both matches first, Team India has taken an unassailable 2-0 lead in the 3-match ODI series. In the first ODI played in Nagpur, Indian captain Rohit Sharma was dismissed for just 2 runs, but in the next match, the hitman hit a brilliant century while batting. Rohit’s bat came to century after 475 days in ODIs, due to which he put a record of records. Rohit hit his 49th century in international cricket and reached the third position among the active cricketers scoring the most centuries. Rohit surpassed Steve Smith (48 centuries). Now India and England will be face to face in the third match, which will be played at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. In this match too, Indian captain Rohit Sharma will have a chance to create history.
Rohit Sharma has scored 10987 runs in 259 innings of 267 ODIs. Now he has a great chance to complete 11 thousand runs in ODIs. Rohit Sharma will become the second batsman in the world to score the fastest 11,000 runs in ODI as soon as he scored 13 runs in the third ODI. He will demolish Sachin Tendulkar’s record. Sachin completed 11 thousand ODI runs in 276 innings. So far, only 9 batsmen have been able to score 11 thousand or more runs in ODIs. Rohit will be the 10th batsman to do so.
Rohit Sharma will have a big record
Not only this, Rohit also has a great chance to complete 9000 runs in ODIs as an opener. For this, Rohit needs only 43 runs. Rohit Sharma is the sixth batsman in the world to score 9000 runs as an opener in ODIs. So far, this feat is recorded in the names of Sachin Tendulkar, Sanath Jayasuriya, Chris Gayle, Adam Gilchrist and Sourav Ganguly.
Batsman who scored the most runs as openers in ODI cricket
- 15310 – Sachin Tendulkar
- 12740 – Sanath Jayasuriya
- 10179 – Chris Gayle
- 9200 – Adam Gilchrist
- 9146 – Sourav Ganguly
- 8957 – Rohit Sharma*
- 8648 – Desmond Hens
- 8357 – Tamim Iqbal
- 8156 – Saeed Anwar
- 8053 – Hashim Amla
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