Rohit Sharma’s 500th match (Photo: PTI)
Rohit Sharma Milestone: The Indian team has reached Australia tour. This tour starts from 19th October, on which day the first match of the 3 ODI series will be played at Optus Stadium in Perth. The big thing is that the first ODI to be played against Australia in Perth is going to be special for Rohit Sharma. This match is going to be a milestone in his international career. Now you might be wondering how? So in response to this just know that Rohit Sharma will create history as soon as he comes on the field for this match.
Rohit Sharma will play 500th match in Perth
Now know the history that Rohit Sharma is going to make. It is related to the 500th match of his international career. For Rohit Sharma, the first ODI to be played against Australia in Perth will be the 500th match of his international career. If Rohit Sharma is included in the playing eleven of this match, then with that he will become the 5th player from India and 11th in the world to play 500 matches in his international career.
An Indian will touch this milestone for the 5th time
Among Indians, the record of playing 500 international matches before him is in the name of Sachin Tendulkar (664 matches), Virat Kohli (550 matches), MS Dhoni (535 matches) and Rahul Dravid (504 matches). Rohit Sharma, who debuted in 2007, currently has 499 international matches, in which he has played 67 Tests, 273 ODIs and 159 T20I matches.
Rohit will become the 11th player of the world
Among the 10 players in the world who have played 500 or more international matches, apart from 4 Indians, there are Mahela Jayawardene of Sri Lanka (652 matches), Kumar Sangakkara of Sri Lanka (594 matches), Sanath Jayasuriya of Sri Lanka (586 matches), former captain of Australia Ricky Ponting (560 matches), Shahid Afridi of Pakistan (524 matches) and Jacques Kallis of South Africa (519 matches). match).
Rohit’s performance in 499 international matches
Talking about Rohit Sharma’s international career before playing his 500th match, he has scored 19700 runs in 499 matches with 50 centuries. In this, he has 4301 runs with 12 centuries in Tests. Whereas in ODI he has 11168 runs with 32 centuries. Apart from this, he has scored 4231 runs in T20I with 5 centuries.