Sachin Tendulkar And Rohit Sharma
Rohit Sharma Sachin Tendulkar: The Indian team had to face defeat by 32 runs in the second ODI against Sri Lanka. The Indian team was all out at 208 runs while chasing the target of 241 runs. The first match between the two teams was a tie. In this match, except Rohit Sharma, the rest of the batsmen failed to perform well. He scored a half-century in the match. But as soon as he was out, Team India’s batting collapsed like a pack of cards.
Rohit Sharma scored a brilliant half century
The pair of Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill had made an excellent opening partnership of 97 runs. Rohit-Gill were batting well then. In such a situation, it seemed that Team India would win the match easily. But the course of the match changed as soon as Rohit was out. He scored 64 runs in 44 balls, which included five fours and four sixes. This is his 121st fifty plus score as an opener in international cricket.
This special record was made in international cricket
Rohit Sharma has become the player to score the most fifty plus scores as an opener in international cricket for India. He has broken Sachin Tendulkar’s record. Sachin had scored fifty plus scores 120 times in international cricket as an opener for India. Now Rohit has reached the first position leaving behind all the Indian players.
Openers with most 50+ scores in International Cricket for India:
Rohit Sharma- 121
Sachin Tendulkar – 120
Virender Sehwag- 103
Sunil Gavaskar- 101
Shikhar Dhawan- 79
Jeffrey Vandersay took 6 wickets
The Sri Lankan team, who came to bat first in the match, lost 6 wickets for 136 runs at one point. But after this, Dunith Welles and Kamindu Mendis batted well. Due to both of these, the score of the Sri Lankan team crossed 200 runs. Welles scored 39 runs and Mendis scored 40 runs. After this, Jeffrey Vandersay took 6 wickets in the match. He broke the back of the Indian batting order. He was given the Player of the Match award for his brilliant performance.
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