Indian national cricket team captain Rohit Sharma put in a sensational performance with the bat in the ongoing first ODI against the Sri Lanka national cricket team. The first game of the series between the teams will be held at the R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo on Friday.
Rohit Sharma, who played his first match after the 2024 T20 World Cup final, made sure to continue from where he left off in the last ODI match he played. The opening batsman in the 230-run chase went after the bowlers from the very beginning and made sure to get his team off to a flying start on a tough pitch.
Rohit Sharma opened his account with a six off the second ball of the innings and there was no looking back from there. The Indian captain exuded class with the bat as he seemed to be batting on a different surface, smashing bowlers all over the pitch.
Rohit Sharma did not make any mistake till the time he was batting. The opening batsman brought up his half-century in the power play. He got his fifty in just 33 balls and ensured that his team maximised the first 10 overs with the bat.
Rohit Sharma finished with an innings of 58 runs off 47 balls. The opening batsman batted at a strike rate of over 123 and also hit 7 fours and 3 sixes in his innings. He added 75 runs opening the partnership with Shubman Gill.
With his innings, Rohit Sharma broke multiple records with the bat. The opening batsman surpassed 15,000 international runs as an opener. He became the 10th opener to do so and the third Indian after Virender Sehwag (16,119) and Sachin Tendulkar (15,335) to achieve the feat. The record is held by Sanath Jayasuriya, who has scored 19,298.
Rohit Sharma also equalled Sachin Tendulkar in terms of the most number of 50-plus scores by an Indian opener in international cricket across all formats. The opening batsman has 120 fifty-plus scores now and is now behind Graeme Smith (125), Desmond Haynes (131), Sanath Jayasuriya (136), Chris Gayle (144) and David Warner (146).
Rohit Sharma overtakes Eoin Morgan as captain with most sixes across all formats
Not only that, Rohit Sharma also broke other records. The Indian captain surpassed 1000 fours in ODI cricket. His tally now stands at 1001. He became the 13th player to surpass 1000 fours and the fifth Indian to achieve the feat.
The current India captain now has Sourav Ganguly (1122), Virender Sehwag (1132), Virat Kohli (1294) and Sachin Tendulkar (2016) ahead of him on the list of most fours by an Indian batsman in the history of 50-overs cricket.
Rohit Sharma also surpassed Eoin Morgan as the captain with the most sixes across all formats. The Indian captain has now hit 234 maximums across all formats. With the kind of performance he has been displaying, the figure is expected to go up.
