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India’s six-wicket win over Bangladesh within the 2025 Champions Trophy marked Rohit Sharma’s one hundredth victory as captain, serving to him be part of Virat Kohli, MS Dhoni and Mohammad Azharuddin within the elite record.
Rohit Sharma (Image Credit score: PTI)
India’s six-wicket win over Bangladesh within the 2025 Champions Trophy on Thursday (February 20) helped Rohit Sharma obtain a century of triumphs as captain in worldwide cricket. He’s solely the fourth Indian after MS Dhoni, Mohammad Azharuddin and Virat Kohli with 100 or extra wins as captain throughout the three codecs.
Rohit achieved it in his 138th match as India’s captain. The Males in Blue bowled Bangladesh out for 228 runs within the first innings and chased it in 46.3 overs, with six wickets to spare.
Mohammed Shami’s five-wicket haul with the ball and Shubman Gill’s unbeaten 101 with the bat had been the pillars of the massive win that began the ICC match on a constructive notice.
However Rohit additionally contributed a superb 36-ball 41 laced with seven fours that set the inspiration of the chase and relieved the remainder of the staff from some stress on the slowing pitch. The knock additionally made him the second-fastest to finish 11,000 ODI runs, solely behind Kohli.
Rohit now has a win proportion of over 72% in worldwide cricket, which is the perfect amongst all captains with a tenure of greater than 22 matches. As compared, Dhoni’s win proportion was 53.61, Azharuddin’s was 47.05 and Kohli’s 63.38. He has already led India to a T20 World Cup title and an ODI World Cup title and this match confirmed that India are well-prepared to go so far as doable in his first Champions Trophy as captain, too.
“Very laborious to say that (on the pitch enjoying sluggish) after only one recreation. You play the circumstances and attempt to take into consideration what you do. We assessed the circumstances effectively as a staff. You’re certain to be underneath stress in a match just like the Champions Trophy,” Rohit stated after the match, as quoted by Cricbuzz.
“Very glad for him (Shami), very long time ready. We all know what he brings to us. We’d like guys like him to face up after we want… We all know the category that Gill has, Shouldn’t shock anybody. It was good to see him bat until the top. Might take him for dinner tomorrow,” he added.
India will subsequent play Pakistan on Sunday, February 23.