Rohit Sharma Becomes First Indian Captain To Register This Massive Cricket World Cup Record | Cricket News

India skipper Rohit Sharma continues his red-form in Cricket World Cup 2023. In the 9 matches performed within the league stage of the match, the right-handed batter scored 503 runs at a median of 55.89. He has hit one century and three half-centuries. Besides getting his title among the many top-scorers within the match, Rohit additionally performed an important function in offering India flying begins. On Sunday, the 36-year-old turned the primary ever Indian captain to attain 500 or extra runs in a single World Cup version. While reaching the milestone, Rohit surpassed Sourav Ganguly (465 runs in 2003 World Cup) to turn into the Indian captain with most runs in a single version of World Cup.

The Indian captains that observe the duo of Rohit and Ganguly are Virat Kohli (443 runs in 2019), Mohammad Azharuddin (332 runs in 1992) and Kapil Dev (303 runs in 1983).

Rohit achieved the feat throughout his 61-run knock off 54 balls towards Netherlands at M.Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru on Sunday. He began all weapons blazing towards the aspect and hit a complete of two sixes and eight fours throughout his knock.

Rohit gained the toss and opted to bat towards Netherlands within the final group stage match of the continued Cricket World Cup 2023.

“We are gonna have a bat. No particular reason. Whether we have batted first or bowled first, we have done extremely well. Another opportunity to play well today and tick all the boxes. Extremely happy with how we have played in this tournament. Hats off to the guys who have stood up at different times and taken responsibility. Same team,” stated Rohit on the toss.

Netherlands captain Scott Edwards stated, “We would have batted as well. Looks like a pretty good wicket, but good ground for chasing. We have been pretty good overall. We’ve had two good wins, and today we want to put in a good performance. This is the biggest crowd we’ve had in the tournament. We will have to be at our best today. World Cup in India is as big as it gets. We could have played better, but it’s been great. Same side for us.”

India (Playing XI): Rohit Sharma(c), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul(w), Suryakumar Yadav, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohammed Shami, Jasprit Bumrah, Kuldeep Yadav and Mohammed Siraj.

Netherlands (Playing XI): Wesley Barresi, Max ODowd, Colin Ackermann, Sybrand Engelbrecht, Scott Edwards(w/c), Bas de Leede, Teja Nidamanuru, Logan van Beek, Roelof van der Merwe, Aryan Dutt and Paul van Meekeren.