IND vs ENG: Rohit-Virat created history in the second ODI, became India’s third most successful pair, leaving behind Ganguly-Dravid

Rohit-Virat: In the second ODI match played between India and England in Cardiff, Team India’s legendary batsmen Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli have created a great record by creating history. Both the batsmen made a partnership of 60 runs in this match. With this half-century innings, the Ro-Co pair has completed 8000 runs partnership in international cricket. With this, the pair of Rohit-Virat has become the third most successful pair of India.

Rohit-Virat is India’s third most successful pair

For Team India, the pair of Rohit-Virat has reached the third position in terms of the highest partnership of runs in all three formats combined. After Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid, Sachin and Ganguly, Rohit-Virat have now become the third most successful pair in terms of scoring runs for India. Both had achieved this milestone by adding 32 runs against England.

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Also read: IND vs ENG: Virat Kohli missed a century, but still made a big record, leaving Sachin Tendulkar behind.

Half-century partnership between the two

In the second ODI match played in Cardiff, Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli made a partnership of 60 runs for the second wicket. Although, Rohit was looking a little worried during this time, but Virat took the innings forward in his own style. In this match, Rohit could score only 26 runs in 47 balls. At the same time, Virat Kohli scored the 78th half-century of his career and played an inning of 65 runs in 66 balls.

Highest run scoring pair for India

The highest run scoring pair for India is of Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly. The duo has added a total of 12400 runs for Team India in international cricket. At the same time, the second pair in this list is of Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid, who have made a partnership of 11037 runs. Now the pair of Rohit-Virat has come at the third position in this list, who have added 8008 runs in all three formats for India. At the fourth position is the pair of Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid, who have added 7626 runs.