Rohit Sharma broke 37 years old record by playing an innings of 79 runs.

The 3-match ODI series played between India and Afghanistan is now over. The last match of the series was played on June 20, in which Team India won and made a clean sweep of the visiting team 3-0 in the series. In this match, Team India’s former captain and opener Rohit Sharma batted brilliantly and played an innings of 79 runs.

With this inning of 79 runs, Rohit created history in ODI cricket and also broke a 37-year-old record. Rohit scored these runs in 69 balls, which included 9 fours and 3 sixes. This is Rohit’s 62nd half-century of his ODI career.

Which record did Rohit break?

With this half-century innings against Afghanistan, Rohit Sharma has become the oldest player from India to score 50 or more runs in One Day International cricket. When he achieved this feat, he was 39 years and 51 days old. In this matter, he broke the record of former Indian legend Mohinder Amarnath. Amarnath scored 88 runs on 80 balls against Pakistan in Sharjah on 15 October 1989. At that time his age was 39 years and 21 days. Now this record has been registered in the name of Rohit Sharma.

Which record of Rahul Dravid was broken?

With this innings played against Afghanistan, Rohit Sharma took his number of scores of 50 or more runs in ODI cricket to 95. With this he left behind former Indian captain Rahul Dravid. Rahul Dravid had scored 50 plus scores a total of 94 times in his ODI career, which included 12 centuries and 82 half-centuries. Rohit Sharma has so far scored 33 centuries and 62 half-centuries, taking his total number of 50+ scores to 95.

How was the condition of the match?

Batting first in this match, Afghanistan team was limited to 218 runs in 44.2 overs. During this, captain Hashmatullah Shahidi also scored a brilliant century. An inning of 102 runs came off his bat, which included 13 fours and 1 six. While bowling for Team India, Prasidh Krishna took maximum 5 wickets giving just 23 runs in 8.2 overs.

Team India had easily achieved the target of 219 runs by losing 1 wicket in 28.4 overs. Yashasvi Jaiswal batted brilliantly and scored a century for Team India. He played an unbeaten inning of 110 runs on 86 balls, which included 14 fours and 3 sixes. Apart from this, Rohit remained unbeaten after scoring 79 runs and Shreyas Iyer remained unbeaten after scoring 20 runs.