Indian skipper Rohit Sharma may have some milestones to chase as he prepares to tackle Bangladesh within the first Check of the two-match layout at Chennai from Thursday. The 2-match layout will kick off on September 19 in Chennai on the MA Chidambaram Stadium. The second one long-format sport will start on September 27 in Kanpur. In his first Check project, head lecturer Gautam Gambhir can be focused on securing a layout win.
The Indian skipper has loved a high quality run of method within the ongoing ICC International Check Championship 2023-25 up to now, scoring 700 runs in 9 suits and 16 innings at a mean of 46.66, with 3 centuries and 3 fifties. His very best ranking is 131. He’s the twelfth very best run-getter within the pageant up to now.
Rohit has two milestones to search for throughout the layout. Attending to the primary milestone will seal his legacy as the rustic’s excellent six-hitter. With 84 sixes in Checks, Rohit is at eleventh park amongst manage six-hitters on this planet. He simply wishes 8 extra fat hits to displace mythical Virender Sehwag (91) to change into crew’s well-known six-hitter in Check cricket.
England skipper Ben Stokes (131), former Fresh Zealand wicketkeeper-batter Brendon McCullum (107) and iconic Australian wicketkeeper-batter Adam Gilchrist (100) are the manage 3 sixes on this planet.
If Rohit is going on a fat six-hitting spree in those two video games, he may just additionally change into handiest the fourth total and primary Indian batter to have smashed 100 sixes in Checks.
The ‘Hitman’ could also be nearing the half-centuries of centuries in global cricket. With 48 centuries in 483 suits, he’s simply two extra lots clear of achieving 50 global centuries. He’s going to change into handiest the 3rd Indian batter to succeed in this milestone and total tenth participant to take action. Lately from Bharat, handiest Sachin Tendulkar (100 centuries) and Virat Kohli (80 centuries) have crossed a half-century of centuries in global cricket.
For Rohit Sharma’s aspect, this layout in opposition to Bangladesh can be adopted by means of Fresh Zealand’s excursion of Bharat for 3 Checks establishing from October 16, and next the extremely expected Border-Gavaskar Trophy layout in Australia from November 22.
Bharat’s squad for the first Check in opposition to Bangladesh: Rohit Sharma (C), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, KL Rahul, Sarfaraz Khan, Rishabh Pant (WK), Dhruv Jurel (WK), R Ashwin, R Jadeja, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Siraj, Akash Deep, Jasprit Bumrah, Yash Dayal.
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