India is at the moment taking up Sri Lanka at Dharamshala’s Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium within the third and final T20I of the continued collection between the 2 sides. The Blues have received the primary two matches of the collection and in the event that they win tonight as nicely, it could be an absolute whitewash. Indian captain Rohit Sharma gave an amazing efficiency each in captaincy and with the bat. But extra essential than that, he broke an untouchable file and thus made historical past.
Rohit Sharma has been one of the crucial essential gamers within the Indian Senior staff for fairly a while now throughout all codecs. He is likely one of the greatest not solely in India however in the entire world. According to ICC rankings, he’s at the moment sixth in Test Cricket, third in ODI and eleventh in T20I which speaks hundreds about his present kind.
But what Rohit Sharma is generally identified for is his good captaincy talents. Rohit made his captaincy debut with IPL franchise Mumbai Indians again in 2013 and received the title with them in his maiden captaincy season. The relaxation is, as they are saying, historical past.
He went on to win 5 IPL trophies with Mumbai Indians, the very best ever in IPL historical past, and appears to haven’t any plans to cease but. The closest to him is Mahendra Singh Dhoni with 4 IPL trophies. But given their age distinction, Rohit will play for a lot of extra years whereas Dhoni’s days as captain are numbered.
Well, the Indian captain has proved his consistency as soon as once more on the International degree as he turned essentially the most capped participant in T20I historical past. He has now performed 125 International T20 Matches which is the very best ever. Previously the file was held by Pakistan’s Shoaib Malik.
Here’s an inventory of essentially the most capped gamers in T20I:-
- Rohit Sharma (India) – 125 matches
- Shoaib Malik (Pakistan) – 124 matches
- Mohammad Hafeez (Pakistan) – 119 matches
- Eoin Morgan (England) – 115 matches
- Mahmudullah (Bangladesh) – 113 matches
Seeing the opposite gamers on this checklist, it may be estimated that Rohit might be holding this file for a fairly very long time till another gamers emerge. But that can take quite a lot of time.
Rohit Sharma made his T20I debut for India again in 2007 and it has now been over 15 years that he has been on the prime persistently. He deserves quite a lot of respect and appreciation for that.