Rohit-Jaiswal’s orgy against South Africa, Tendulkar-Ganguly’s ‘great record’ saved from being broken

Rohit Sharma and Yashasvi Jaiswal Opening Partnership Record: In the third match played between India and South Africa, India has won by 9 wickets. With this victory, the Indian team also won the ODI series by 2-1. In the third match of the ODI series between South Africa and India at the ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium, the opening pair of Rohit Sharma and Yashasvi Jaiswal achieved a big achievement by making a partnership of 155 runs. However, the pair missed out on breaking the record of Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly.

Rohit and Yashasvi made the record of second highest Indian partnership for the first wicket in ODI history against South Africa. Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly top this list, between whom there was a partnership of 193 runs for the first wicket in the ODI match played in Johannesburg on 5 October 2001.

The biggest partnership in the name of Gary Kirsten and Herschelle Gibbs

The record for the highest partnership for any wicket in ODI history between India and South Africa is held by Gary Kirsten and Herschelle Gibbs, who added 235 runs for the first wicket in Kochi on 9 March 2000. At the same time, from India’s side, Virat Kohli and Rituraj Gaikwad had added 195 runs for the third wicket on 3 December 2025.

This was the 10th time that India had an opening partnership of more than 100 runs against South Africa. Rohit Sharma has been a part of century partnerships for the first wicket 35 times so far in the ODI format. Only Sachin Tendulkar (40) is ahead of him in this list.

condition of competition

Talking about this match being played in Visakhapatnam, South African team was reduced to 270 runs in 47.5 overs. Quinton de Kock scored the highest 106 runs for this team. His innings included 6 sixes and 8 fours, while captain Temba Bavuma played an inning of 48 runs in 67 balls. For India, Prasidh Krishna and Kuldeep Yadav took 4 wickets each. Arshdeep Singh and Ravindra Jadeja took 1-1 wicket.

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In response, the opening pair of Rohit Sharma and Yashasvi Jaiswal made a partnership of 155 runs in 25.5 overs. Rohit was out after scoring 75 runs in 73 balls with 3 sixes and 7 fours. With this inning, Rohit Sharma also completed 20 thousand runs in international cricket. After that, Yashasvi Jaiswal scored his first century in ODI cricket. Yashasvi Jaiswal scored an unbeaten 116 and Virat Kohli scored an unbeaten 65 to lead the team to victory.