During his innings of 35 in the first innings of the Fourth Test against Australia, India captain Rohit Sharma became the sixth Indian batsman to complete 17,000 runs in international cricket. Rohit was unbeaten on 17 at stumps on the second day Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabadand by scoring four more runs in the morning session of the third day’s play, he completed 17,000 runs in international cricket.
He now joins the list of Indian batsmen who have scored more than 17,000 runs in international cricket like the legendary Sachin Tendulkar, the charismatic Virat Kohli, head coach Rahul Dravid, former captain Sourav Ganguly and Mahendra Singh Dhoni. (‘Acha Chalta Hoon Duayen…’, KL Rahul trolled badly after Shubman Gill’s century)
Rohit made his international debut for India against Ireland in June 2007, and has since played a total of 48 Tests (currently playing in the Ahmedabad Test), 241 ODIs and 148 T20Is, scoring 3348 runs ( can bat second) innings at Ahmedabad), 9782, and 3853 runs respectively.
Congratulations #TeamIndia captain @ImRo45 On reaching runs in international cricket pic.twitter.com/CZ8vYpHmGe– BCCI (@BCCI) March 11, 2023
He is also the only cricketer in the world to score three double centuries in ODIs. Rohit could have scored more runs in the first innings in Ahmedabad as he thwarted Mitchell Starc’s short-ball move. But when he shaped a backfoot punch off left-arm spinner Matthew Kuhnman, he sent the ball straight to short extra cover in the 21st over.
List of batsmen with more than 17,000 runs for India
Sachin Tendulkar
M S Dhoni
Virat Kohli
Sourav Ganguly
Rohit Sharma
Rahul Dravid
India have already retained the Border-Gavaskar trophy with wins in Nagpur and New Delhi, but will need a win in Ahmedabad after a defeat in Indore to reach the World Test Championship final to be held at The Oval from June 7-11 .