Rohit Sharma
The third match of the five-match Test series between India and England is being played in Rajkot. In this match, Team India captain Rohit Sharma won the toss and decided to bat first. During this, Rohit Sharma played a historic innings for India and brought Team India out of a very difficult situation. The hitmen who came to open for India were busy at one end of the match, but none of the batsmen were able to establish themselves at the other end. At one time Team India had lost three wickets at the score of 33. Then making a historic partnership with Jadeja, Rohit Sharma handled the Indian innings very well and also scored a century for India in this match.
Rohit’s historic innings
Rohit Sharma played a strong inning of 131 runs in 196 balls in the third test match against England. During this, he also hit 14 fours and three sixes. Captain Rohit Sharma scored a century in Test cricket after July 2023. Rohit Sharma has set not just one or two but a total of 7 records on the basis of this innings. The day Rohit Sharma is in rhythm, many records are made. A similar total happened on the first day of the game against England.
7 records of Rohit Sharma
With his century against England, Rohit Sharma has become the oldest captain for India to score a century in all three formats. This is Rohit Sharma’s 10th century as captain. On the other hand, Rohit Sharma has overtaken MS Dhoni in the list of players who have hit the most sixes as a captain. Rohit Sharma has now hit 212 sixes in 121 innings. Rohit Sharma has come second in this list. Not only this, Rohit Sharma has also reached second position in terms of hitting most sixes in Tests for India. Rohit Sharma has also moved from 5th place to 4th in the list of Indian batsmen who have scored the most runs in international cricket. During this innings, Rohit also completed a total of 2000 runs in all three formats against England.
Rohit Sharma made these records
Most centuries by an Indian captain
- 41 – Virat Kohli
- 16 – Sourav Ganguly
- 13 – M Azharuddin
- 13 – Sachin Tendulkar
- 11 – MS Dhoni
- 11 – Sunil Gavaskar
- 10 – Rohit Sharma
Most sixes as a captain
- 233 – Eoin Morgan
- 212 – Rohit Sharma
- 211 – MS Dhoni
- 171 – Ricky Ponting
- 170 – Brendon McCullum
Oldest Indian captain to score a century
Test – Rohit vs England
ODI – Rohit vs Afghanistan
T20I – Rohit vs Afghanistan
Indians who have scored the most runs in international cricket
- 34357 – Sachin Tendulkar
- 26733 – Virat Kohli
- 24208 – Rahul Dravid
- 18641 – Rohit Sharma
- 18575 – Sourav Ganguly
Most sixes for India in Tests
- 90 – Virender Sehwag
- 79 – Rohit Sharma
- 78 – MS Dhoni
- 69 – Sachin Tendulkar
- 61 – Kapil Dev
Indians with 2000+ runs against most teams
- 8 – Sachin Tendulkar
- 7 – Rahul Dravid
- 6 – Virat Kohli
- 4 – Sunil Gavaskar
- 4 – Sourav Ganguly
- 4 – Virender Sehwag
- 4 – Rohit Sharma
Most runs for India as captain
- 12883 – Virat Kohli
- 11207 – MS Dhoni
- 8095 – Mohammad Azharuddin
- 7643 – Sourav Ganguly
- 4606 – Rohit Sharma
- 4508 – Sachin Tendulkar
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