Publish Date: | Fri, 25 Feb 2022 10:10 AM (IST)
Rohit Sharma Records: Under the captaincy of Rohit Sharma, the great campaign of the Indian cricket team continues. After registering a tremendous win against West Indies, Team India also made a winning start to the T20 series against Sri Lanka. India registered a colossal 62-run victory in the first T20I against Sri Lanka in Lucknow on Thursday to take a 1-0 lead in the three-match series. This is Team India’s 10th consecutive win under the captaincy of Rohit Sharma. Earlier, under the captaincy of Rohit, the team had won 3 T20 matches against New Zealand. This was followed by a clean sweep against West Indies with wins in 2 ODIs and 3 T20Is. Now Sri Lanka has been defeated. In this way, Rohit has won 10 matches (W, W, W, W, W, W, W, W, W, W) as a consecutive captain.
Hitman became T20 King: Indian captain Rohit Sharma has become T20 King by scoring 44 runs. Rohit has surpassed New Zealand’s Martin Guptill and India’s Virat Kohli to become the highest run-scorer in T20Is. Before Rohit, this record was held by Guptill. Guptill has 3,299 runs to his name, while Virat, who was not included in the team for this series, has 3,296 runs. Rohit now has 3,307 runs.
Deepak Hooda made his debut: Deepak Hooda was included in the last-11 in the Indian team. In such a situation, Deepak Hooda made his debut in T20 Internationals. Apart from Deepak Hooda, Sanju Samson, Ravindra Jadeja have been included in the Indian team. Jadeja is returning to the team due to injury.
Opening the match by playing Sunny Bell: The first match of the series against Sri Lanka started in an interesting way. Veteran batsman Sunil Gavaskar started the match by ringing the bell in the stadium. This is the first time in the cricket history of Uttar Pradesh that an international match was started in this style.
Gaikwad’s wrist pain: Shortly before the match, Team India suffered a setback when Rituraj Gaikwad had to be out of the match due to fitness. Gaikwad has complained of pain in his right wrist before the match. He has also told that because of this he is having trouble batting. The medical team of BCCI is examining him.
Posted By: Arvind Dubey