Indian captain Rohit Sharma made his booming re-visitation of scoring with century against England on the very first moment of the third Test match in Rajkot on Thursday.
Rohit Sharma scored his eleventh Test hundred and the third against England, protecting India from a major crisis. With 157 deliveries, Rohit scored his century.
During his innings, Rohit Sharma played not many great shots, including the biggest sixes too. Sharma, in his whole innings, scored 14 boundaries and three sixes.
Rohit Sharma went past previous Indian captain MS Dhoni for most sixes in Test cricket. With the help of sixes, Rohit outperformed MS Dhoni’s 78 sixes with his 79 sixes.
Sharma is just behind previous Indian cricketer Virender Sehwag, who holds the record for most sixes by an Indian in a Test with his 91 maximums.
Distinctively, Rohit Sharma’s innings do not lack massive sixes, as he is the main six-hitter in T20Is with 190 sixes.
Rohit Sharma, as of now, has 18,641 runs as opposed to Ganguly’s 18,575 runs. Rohit likewise added one more significant record for himself by being the fourth-highest run scorer for India in worldwide cricket, overtaking ex- Indian captain Sourav Ganguly.
Sachin Tendulkar (34,357 runs), Virat Kohli (26,733 runs), and Rahul Dravid (24,064 runs) are ahead of Rohit Sharma.
