Cricketer Rohit Sharma has change into India’s second captain to complete 200 T20 matches. On Sunday, April 2, he completed the feat in Mumbai Indians’ IPL 2023 opener towards Royal Challengers Bangalore in Bengaluru.
Rohit Shama additionally created a brand new file by changing into the third captain in T20 historical past to complete 200 matches as skipper. MS Dhoni, the previous T20 World Cup chief tops the record, with a captaincy of 307 instances in the shortest format of the sport.
Dhoni (307) and Darren Sammy (208) are the 2 different gamers on the record who’re forward of Rohit.
Currently, the Indian cricket staff skipper is simply 121 runs away from changing into the third batsman in IPL historical past to attain 6000 runs. Virat Kohli and Shikhar Dhawan are the opposite two batsmen who’ve completed this file, whereas David Warner leads the IPL with 5881 runs.
In in the present day’s match, RCB received the toss and selected to discipline first.
“With this new rule groups are backing themselves to chase. At the top of the day it’s a must to play good cricket to win. We know we’ve to bat first right here. The pitch seems to be good, we simply have to return out with optimistic intent,” Rohit mentioned on the toss.
Royal Challengers Bangalore (Playing XI): Virat Kohli, Faf du Plessis(c), Glenn Maxwell, Michael Bracewell, Shahbaz Ahmed, Dinesh Karthik(w), Karn Sharma, Harshal Patel, Akash Deep, Reece Topley, Mohammed Siraj
Mumbai Indians (Playing XI): Rohit Sharma(c), Ishan Kishan(w), Suryakumar Yadav, Cameron Green, Tilak Varma, Tim David, Nehal Wadhera, Hrithik Shokeen, Piyush Chawla, Jofra Archer, Arshad Khan
