Rohit Sharma Record: Rohit Sharma Did Yuvraj Singh's Feat, Entered Sachin's Special List

Rohit Sharma registered his name in a special record list when he scored his 29th run in the first innings against England. The Indian team is playing the third Test at the Niranjan Shah Stadium in Rajkot and is batting first against England.

Rajkot: Indian team captain Rohit Sharma entered a special record list by scoring the 29th run against England at Niranjan Shah Stadium in Rajkot. He became the 9th Indian batsman to score 2000 or more runs in all three formats against England. Before this match, he had scored 1971 runs against England while completing 29 runs by scoring 2 runs on the last ball of the 13th over. He has registered his name in the list of powerful batters along with his senior partner Yuvraj Singh.

The record of scoring most runs against England in all three formats is in the name of the great Sachin Tendulkar. Sachin has scored almost 4 thousand runs, while former captain Virat Kohli is in second place. He has scored 3970 runs. World-winning captain MS Dhoni is number three, Rahul Dravid is number four, and the great Sunil Gavaskar is number five. Mohammad Azharuddin, Yuvraj Singh, and Dilip Vengsarkar are also on this list.

Indian Batsmen Who Scored 2000 Runs Against England (all three formats)

Sachin Tendulkar: 3990 runs

Virat Kohli: 3970 runs

MS Dhoni: 2999 runs

Rahul Dravid: 2993 runs

Sunil Gavaskar: 2919 runs

Mohammad Azharuddin: 2189 runs

Yuvraj Singh: 2154 runs

Dilip Vengsarkar: 2115 runs

Rohit Sharma: 2000+ runs

Earlier, the Indian team won the toss in the Rajkot Test against England and decided to bat first. For him, Sarfaraz Khan and Dhruv Jurel made their debut, while Mark Wood returned to the playing 11 of the English team. He replaced Shoaib Bashir. Earlier, India had lost the Test in Hyderabad but made a wonderful comeback and won in Visakhapatnam.