IND vs SA: Rohit Sharma’s new record in Vizag, becomes the fourth Indian to score 20,000 runs in international cricket

IND vs SA: The decisive match of the three-match ODI series between India and South Africa is being played in Visakhapatnam. While chasing South Africa’s 271 runs, Team India has scored 166 runs after losing 1 wicket. Veteran batsman Rohit Sharma has achieved a historic milestone in the decisive ODI match with his half-century innings. During his brilliant innings in this match, he completed 20,000 runs in international cricket.

Fourth Indian, 14th player in the world

Famous hitman Rohit Sharma has completed 20,000 runs in international cricket. Rohit has become only the fourth Indian batsman to do so. Before him, only three great players – Sachin Tendulkar (34,357 runs), Virat Kohli (27,910+ runs), and Rahul Dravid (24,208 runs) – had achieved this feat. This feat includes him in the list of great batsmen of world cricket, he is the 14th player in the world to reach this milestone.

Mt. 2⃣0⃣k

Congratulations to Rohit Sharma on becoming just the 4th Indian cricketer to amass 2⃣0⃣,0⃣0⃣0⃣ runs in international cricket

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In the match, Rohit Sharma faced 73 balls and played an inning of 75 runs with 3 sixes and 7 fours. This is Rohit’s second fifty in this series. Along with completing 20000 runs, Rohit has also completed 5000 ODI runs while batting in India.

Most runs for India in international cricket

34357 – Sachin Tendulkar
27910 – Virat Kohli
24208 – Rahul Dravid
20000 – Rohit Sharma*
18575 – Sourav Ganguly

Also read: IND vs SA: Prasidh Krishna’s tremendous comeback in Vizag, broke the back of South Africa by taking 4 wickets

India (Playing XI):Rohit Sharma, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Virat Kohli, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Tilak Verma, KL Rahul (wicket keeper/captain), Ravindra Jadeja, Harshit Rana, Kuldeep Yadav, Arshdeep Singh, Prasidh Krishna

South Africa (Playing XI):Ryan Rickelton, Quinton de Kock (wk), Temba Bavuma (c), Matthew Bretzke, Aiden Markram, Dewald Brewis, Marco Jensen, Corbin Bosch, Keshav Maharaj, Lungi Ngidi, Otniel Bartman.

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