Rohit Sharma Overtakes Sachin Tendulkar To Celebrate This ODI Record; Stays Behind Virat Kohli

Since the former Indian captain, MS Dhoni promoted Rohit Sharma to the opening position during the 2013 season of the ICC Champions Trophy, the Mumbai batter has broken several records in the game across formats for the Indian side.

The last few months have been quite tough on the Nagpur-born, who decided to step down from the fifth and final Test of the Border Gavaskar Trophy (BGT) 2024-25 at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) against Australia. Rohit smashed just 31 runs in five innings at an average of 6.20, with the best score of 10.

Rohit Sharma becomes second fastest to celebrate 11000 ODI runs

Since the start of 2023, Rohit Sharma took an aggressive step in nailing the boundaries and over boundaries against the pacers in the powerplay to help the Indian side, in reaching powerful scores in the first 10 overs.

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The Nagpur-born enjoyed the home ODI World Cup in 2023 as the second leading scorer with 597 runs in 11 innings at an average of 54.27 and a strike rate of 125.94, shouldering on three half-centuries and one century at the best score of 131.

Even in the only three ODIs that India played last year in Sri Lanka when most of the batters of the blue brigade struggled to score runs against the spinners, Root stood up and cracked two fine half-centuries and ended as the leading run-getter with 141 runs in just three innings at a strike rate of around 130.

During their opening game of the Champions Trophy 2025 at the Dubai International Stadium against Bangladesh, Rohit celebrated his 11000th ODI run, the second fastest in achieving the milestone after the former captain, Virat Kohli. The right-handed batter reached the mark in 261 innings, 39 more than Kohli. But he has gone Sachin Tendulkar in 15 less innings.

Rohit Sharma’s aggressive batting against Bangladesh

During the 229-run chase against Bangladesh, Rohit had a tough start as he kept on playing and missing a few deliveries. But the form was on his side, thanks to the century he notched up during the second game in Cuttack against England.

A delivery on the pads from Mustafizur Rahman was tucked away to the deep backward square leg fence from Rohit Sharma, who reached the milestone in an ugly way. The outside edge of his blade flew towards the boundary region for a four before he drilled Rahman for three boundaries in the sixth over.

The 37-year-old cut the back-of-a-length delivery late to the backward point and cover-point right into the gap. He also punched the length delivery outside the off-stump between the backward point and the point region for the same result.

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Rohit Sharma holed out finally when he came down the track to loft the ball straight in the air against Taskin Ahmed for 41 runs in 36 deliveries, shouldering on seven boundaries at a strike rate of 113.89.

Rohit Sharma’s specialty against Pakistan

India’s second encounter will be against Pakistan, as they will have the chance to qualify for the semifinal of the tournament and knock the green brigade almost out of the competition if they can win the mouth-watering contest against the arch-rivals.

Rohit Sharma’s contribution will be valuable in this circumstance. He has 873 runs in 19 innings at an average of 51.35 and a strike rate of nearly 92, thanks to eight fifties and two centuries at the best score of 140 against Pakistan. His record of 358 runs in six innings at an ODI average of 89.50 in Dubai will benefit the side so much.