Rohit Sharma went overtakes Sachin Tendulkar to join Virat Kohli in the list of Indian batters with further than 10,000 ODI Runs.
India captain Rohit Sharma registered an each-new corner as he went past the 10,000- run mark in ODI justice. Rohit came the alternate-fastest Indian to have gauged Mt. 10k, with Virat Kohli leading the maps. Rohit reached the corner in 241 innings while Kohli had done so in 205 innings. Following Rohit are the likes of Sachin Tendulkar(259 innings), Sourav Ganguly(263 innings) and Ricky Ponting(266 innings).
Barring Rohit, five other Indian batters have gone on to score 10,000 runs in ODI justice. Having scored a half- century in the last match, the Hitman also brought up his fifty in the match against Sri Lanka.
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As Rohit Sharma won the toss, he decided to club first, with the platoon making one change with spin each- rounder Axar Patel coming in for leader Shardul Thakur. Sri Lanka, on the other hand, remained unchanged from their last match against Bangladesh.
“We’re going to have a club. That is the challenge you come across as a sportswoman, different challenges thrown at you as a player and as a platoon. We assured everyone got into the pool after the game last night. They’re fresh as we had five days out before these two games. Last game was good for us, we maundered well and also came out to defend the total with some good bowling. But again this is a new day and a fresh game. The pitch looks different, looks a lot drier and there is no lawn and hence we bring in Axar for Shardul. It might help the baits but we also have three quality bellwethers,” Rohit said at the time of toss.
India: Rohit Sharma( c), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, KL Rahul(wk), Ishan Kishan, Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Siraj.
Sri Lanka: Dasun Shanaka(c), Pathum Nissanka, Dimuth Karunaratne, Kusal Mendis(wk), Sadeera Samarawickrama, Charith Asalanka, Dhananjaya de Silva, Dunith Wellalage, Maheesh Theekshana, Kasun Rajitha and Matheesha Pathirana.
