Rohit Sharma becomes second batter after Virat Kohli to achieve this unique feet.
On Day 2 of the first test match against West Indies, India’s captain Rohit Sharma managed to get himself on the list of elite cricketers as the batter now became the second to score more than 3500 runs in all the formats of international cricket. He is second only to India’s great batter and former captain Virat Kohli to do this. Rohit Sharma’s appearance in white ball cricket had been more compared to red ball cricket, but since 2019, he has been seen in Test cricket regularly as an opener and has played some significant innings in his career so far. He has so far scored 3540 runs in test cricket, 9825 runs in ODI, and 3853 runs in T20I. Virat Kohli has so far scored 8479 runs in test cricket and 12898 runs in ODI. He is the only batsman so far to cross 4000 runs in T20I; he has scored 4008 runs in T20I.
Rohit Sharma was given the responsibility to lead team India last year in 2022 after stepped down from the role, Rohit Sharma amassed 2002 runs while playing at home, youngster Yashasvi Jaiswal had a dream debut as he hit his first International century on his debut test match and declared his arrival to the world after having a great IPL season in which he displayed some of the glimpses of his talent, he scored the fastest fifty of the IPL competing his fifty in just 13 balls against Kolkata Knight Riders and scored his maiden IPL century in the same season since then it was speculated by experts that he will be getting a chance to play for team India in International matches and in his first innings he proved that the decision to select him was not wrong.
In his fabulous knock of 103 runs, he hit 2 sixes and 10 fours before getting dismissed in the over of debutant Alick Athanaze.