Rohit-Virat will make this record together at Lord’s, not alone, this has never happened before in Indian cricket.

Lord’s ODI will be special for Rohit-Virat (Photo: PTI)

England vs India ODI: The last match of the ODI series between India and England is to be played at Lord’s. This match is decisive for both the teams because only the team that wins it will become the winner of the series. In this important match to be played at Lord’s, Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli will be seen together making a big record. Both of them will be seen doing something together at Lord’s, which has not happened before in Indian cricket. Even in world cricket, there are only 5 examples of this.

Rohit-Virat will play 400th match together

Now the question is, what record are Rohit and Virat going to make together? These two are going to become the first pair in international cricket to play 400 matches together for India. The ODI to be held at Lord’s will be the 400th international match of the two together. So far, there are 5 pairs in world cricket, who have played 400 or more matches together for their country. Among them, there is only one pair who have played 500 plus matches together.

5 such pairs so far in world cricket

Sri Lanka’s Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene have played 550 international matches together. Mahela Jayawardene’s name is also at second place but along with Tillakaratne Dilshan. Both of them have played 426 international matches together for Sri Lanka. Also at number three is the Sri Lankan pair of Kumar Sangakkara and Tillakaratne Dilshan. Both of them have played 418 international matches together. Sanath Jayasuriya and Muralitharan played 408 international matches together for Sri Lanka. Whereas South Africa’s pair of Jacques Kallis and Mark Boucher is at number 5, who played 407 international matches together.

The first record was in the name of Sachin-Dravid

Rohit-Virat are going to play their 400th match together at Lord’s. Before him, the record of playing most number of international matches in India together was in the names of Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid. This Indian pair played 391 matches together.

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