IND vs AUS: Rohit Sharma first Indian captain to hit lots of in all codecs, smashes maiden Test century v Australia

Rohit Sharma turned the primary Indian captain to document a century in all codecs in the course of the first Test towards Australia on the VCA Stadium in Nagpur on Friday.

Rohit’s maiden Test hundred as captain got here in his third match, making him simply the third skipper to document a century in all codecs after Sri Lanka’s Tillakaratne Dilshan, South Africa’s Faf du Plessis and Pakistan’s Babar Azam.

Rohit reached the mark off 171 balls on the again of 14 fours and two sixes.

This was additionally Rohit’s first Test ton towards Australia and sixth as an opener in simply 21 innings. Overall, the 35-year-old has amassed over 3000 Test runs with 9 centuries.

An achieved limited-overs opener, Rohit opened the innings in whites for the primary time in 2019 towards South Africa, scoring back-to-back centuries in Visakhapatanam. Rohit additionally emerged because the main run-scorer amongst openers within the inaugural version of the ICC World Test Championship (2019-21) with 1094 runs from 12 matches.