Rohit Sharma has a chance to score 11 thousand runs against England

Last updated:February 06, 2025, 09:00 IST

IND Vs ENG ODI: Indian captain Rohit Sharma will play the first international match in 2025 and expect to forget the failure of December 2024 and move forward.

IND Vs ENG: Rohit Sharma will play the first international match in 2025.

New Delhi. Rohit Sharma, who is troubled by the form and surrounded by criticism, has come to cash in. Hitman Sharma will be seen captaining in the Indo-England ODI match on 6 February today. He will play the first international match in the year 2025 and hope to forget the failure of December 2024 and move forward. If Rohit Sharma, who has scored three triple centuries in ODIs, score 134 runs against England, then many pages of the recordbook will turn.

The first ODI between India and England is to be played in Nagpur on Thursday. This is India’s first ODI after six months. India played the previous ODI series against Sri Lanka, in which Rohit performed well. He then scored 157 runs in three matches at an average of 52.33. Rohit Sharma’s fans are hoping that Rohit will do the same performance again.

Rohit Sharma has played overall 265 ODIs so far. He has scored 10866 runs in these matches at an average of 49.16. Now 11 thousand runs Milestone is 134 runs away from them. Before Rohit Sharma, 10 batter has touched 11 thousand runs. Rohit Sharma will become the 11th batter to do so.

Rohit has a chance to break Sachin’s record
Rohit Sharma has scored 10866 runs in 257 innings. If they score 134 more against England, then within 260 innings, they will touch the figure of 11000 runs. Only Virat Kohli is such batter in the world, who have scored 11 thousand runs in less than 260 innings. Virat Kohli is currently first and Sachin Tendulkar is second in terms of scoring 11 thousand runs. Rohit Sharma can make a place between these two. That is, Rohit has full opportunity to send Sachin to number three. Virat crossed 222 and Sachin crossed 11000 runs in 276 innings.