Rohit Sharma Became only the sixth Indian batsman in the history of international cricket to score 17000 or more runs in all formats combined. He achieved this feat in the ongoing Test between Australia and India in Ahmedabad on the third day.
Indian batsmen with 17000 or more runs
- Sachin Tendulkar: 34357
- Virat Kohli: 25047
- Rahul Dravid: 24064
- Sourav Ganguly: 18433
- M S Dhoni: 17092
- Rohit Sharma: 17014*
Not only this, Sharma also became the fastest Indian batsman to score 2000 Test runs in India.
Pujara is not far behind
Cheteshwar Pujara He is on the verge of achieving a position in Test cricket as well. The right-handed batsman is currently the leading run scorer in the Border Gavaskar series. Notably, Pujara is 9 runs away from scoring 2000 runs in the BGT series.
Ashwin – The Record Breaker
With his 26th five-wicket haul during Australia’s first innings in the Fourth Test, Ashwin surpassed Anil Kumble’s record for most fifties in Test cricket in India. Here too he overtook Kumble to become the leading Indian wicket-taker for India in the Border Gavaskar Trophy. Before the match, Ashwin had taken 107 wickets in the series. He took six wickets and passed Kumble’s mark of 111 wickets.
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match status
Indian openers took the field in the first innings of the match, almost two days after they stepped onto the field at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. On the basis of solid performance of centuries, Australia scored a huge score of 480 runs. Usman Khawaja and Cameron Green. The Indian openers remained unbeaten on 36 runs in the last 10 overs. On the third morning, Rohit and Shubman got off to a good start before Matthew Kuhnmann sent back Rohit Sharma.
India’s batting line-up has a mountain to climb and it will be interesting to see if they get close to Australia’s 480.