Skipper Rohit Sharma joins the record of the elite membership along with his a centesimal look as India’s captain in the course of the ODI World Cup 2023.

Rohit Sharma joins elite 100 membership 

The skipper Rohit Sharma added his already illustrious cap within the twenty ninth World Cup match and joins an iconic record of India captains.

He makes his a centesimal look as an ODI captain the place India is about to face Jos Buttler-led England of their sixth World Cup match at Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium.

He turns into the seventh India skipper to characteristic in 100 matches within the worldwide circuit. He even surpassed Sachin Tendulkar and Sunil Gavaskar to enter the membership. Grasp Blaster captained India for 98 video games whereas Gavaskar led the aspect for 84 matches.

The elite record of captains with 100 appearances options Virat Kohli, MS Dhoni, Kapi Dev, Mohammad Azharuddin, Sourav Ganguly, and Rahul Dravid.

Rohit Sharma spoke after the toss in the course of the England match saying, “We needed to bat first, now we have had fun batting second. Seems to be like pitch, it’s a brand new floor that has been relayed right here. It has performed effectively for the 100 overs.”

“I imply it’s fairly necessary to suppose like that nevertheless it’s necessary to get the 2 factors. We have now performed some good cricket. It’s all the time good to have a break. It’s good to return again right here and get again into enterprise. We’re taking part in the identical workforce we performed within the final recreation,” Rohit stated after the toss.

MS Dhoni is the one captain to win an ICC World Cup T20 (2007), ODI World Cup (2011) and Champions Trophy (2023). He has captained the aspect in 332 matches. He recorded 178 wins and 120 defeats because the captain.

Azharuddin has captained India for 221 matches. Virat Kohli has led India in 213 matches out of which the aspect gained 135 matches and 60 defeats. Rohit Sharma has the best win proportion as India’s captain. He has gained 73 matches as India’s captain whereas they suffered 23 matches whereas 2 video games led to a draw.

He has a formidable win proportion of 73.73 as captain within the worldwide cricket.