The Indian team will play a three-match ODI series against Afghanistan from June 13, in which Team India is going to be seen playing in this format after a long time. While some new players have got a place in the squad for this series, old players have returned. The thing that the fans are waiting for the most in this series is to see Rohit Sharma playing, whose fitness was earlier under suspense, but now it has been decided that he will play. Rohit is going to have a chance to achieve a big achievement with the bat in this series for which he will have to score only 6 runs.
Rohit Sharma just 6 runs away from 16000 runs as an opener
Rohit Sharma is counted among the best opening batsmen in international cricket, in which even though he played the initial matches of his career as a middle order batsman, after getting a chance in the opening, he was successful in cementing his place in this position. If we look at Rohit’s record as an opener in international cricket, he has scored a total of 15994 runs with an average of 45.3 while batting in 383 innings of 358 matches, in which he has 45 centuries and 83 half-centuries in his name. If Rohit is successful in scoring 6 runs as an opener in the ODI series against Afghanistan, then he will become only the second Indian player after Virender Sehwag to complete the figure of 16000 runs. Apart from this, if seen in world cricket, he will be only the 7th player to score 16000 or more runs.
Player who scored most runs as an opener in ODI
- Sanath Jayasuriya (Sri Lanka) – 19298 runs
- Chris Gayle (West Indies) – 18867 runs
- David Warner (Australia) – 18744 runs
- Graeme Smith (South Africa) – 16950 runs
- Desmond Haynes (West Indies) – 16120 runs
- Virender Sehwag (India) – 16119 runs
- Rohit Sharma (India) – 15994
Opportunity to leave Sehwag-Haynes behind
Rohit Sharma is going to have a chance not only to complete the figure of 16000 runs in international cricket as an opener but also to leave behind Virender Sehwag and Desmond Haynes. For this, Rohit will have to score a total of 126 runs in all three matches in the ODI series against Afghanistan, in which he will reach 5th position in the list of players who have scored the most runs in international cricket as an opener.
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