Indian opener and centurion from their last game, Rohit Sharma has completed 2000 ODI runs against Australia during the league match of World Cup 2019 between the 2 teams at The Oval.
HIGHLIGHTS
- Rohit Sharma completed 2000 runs in ODIs against Australia on Sunday
- He became the fastest to get to the landmark against a particular today
- Rohit also became only the 4th batsman to complete 2000 runs in ODIs against the Aussies
- Indian opener Rohit Sharma on Sunday (June 9) completed 2000 runs against Australia in ODIs when the two teams met in their World Cup 2019 encounter at The Oval. In his 37th innings against Australia, Rohit Sharma became the fastest player to get to the landmark, against a particular team.Rohit surpassed his senior and Indian legend Sachin Tendulkar's record in the process, with the latter having taken 40 innings to complete the milestone, that too against Australia. West Indian great Vivian Richards, Virat Kohli and MS Dhoni round up the top 5 on the list of players who took the fewest innings to 2000 ODI runs:37 Rohit Sharma v Australia
40 Sachin Tendulkar v Australia
44 Viv Richards v Australia
44 Virat Kohli v Sri Lanka
45 MS Dhoni v Sri Lanka
Rohit has also become just the 4th batsman to notch up 2000 ODI runs against Australia with just Tendulkar (3077), Desmond Haynes (2262) and Viv Richards (2187) being the other players with this distinction against the current defending champions at World Cup 2019.
Rohit Sharma was finally dismissed by Nathan Coulter-Nile for 57 off 70 balls after putting up a solid 127-run opening partnership with Shikhar Dhawan.
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