33 Interesting stats from Rohit Sharma's career

The exploits in Test cricket:

9. Rohit Sharma, in his first-ever Test match as an opener (vs SA in Vizag, 2019), scored a total of 303 runs with two centuries. He thus became the first player to score twin centuries in his maiden Test match as an opener. Rohit became the first to aggregate 300+ runs in maiden Test as an opener.

10. Rohit had a Test batting average of 288 at the end of his debut Test series in 2013. He scored 177 on debut at the Eden Gardens and followed it with an unbeaten 111-run knock in his 2nd Test at the Wankhede. Rohit’s average of 288 is the highest average achieved by an Indian in Test cricket at the end of a match.

A legend of ODI format:

11. Rohit Sharma scored at least one century in 10 consecutive series/tournaments in ODI format between the 2017 Champions Trophy and 2019 ODI series in Australia. No other player has more scored a century in more than 6 consecutive ODI series/tournaments.

12. Rohit had a batting average over 50 in every calendar year between 2013 and 2019 in ODI cricket. No other player in ODI history has scored 500+ runs in more than five consecutive calendar years while averaging 50 and more.

13. Rohit Sharma had 50+ ODI batting average in 2011 alongside the seven calendar years between 2013 and 2019. Thus, he scored 500+ ODI runs at 50+ batting average in the most number of calendar years (8). Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers are behind him with seven such years apiece.

The special 2019:

14. Rohit Sharma scored ten centuries in International cricket in 2019 which came against seven different opponents. Rohit thus became the first player to score centuries against 7 different teams in a calendar year.

He smashed tons against South Africa, Pakistan, England, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka during the CWC 2019. Rohit also scored a ton against Australia at the start of 2019 and also one hundred against West Indies towards the end. He also amassed three Test tons against South Africa in the home series.

15. The ten hundreds in 2019 helped Rohit Sharma to become the first player in International cricket to smash ten centuries while opening in a calendar year. Sachin Tendulkar in 1998, Graeme Smith in 2005 and David Warner in 2016 had nine centuries each.

Rohit also aggregated 2442 runs across all three International formats in 2019; the most runs in International cricket in a calendar year by an opener.

The beast of T20I format:

16. Rohit Sharma is the only player to have recorded a 50+ score in 10 different countries. Rohit has at least one 50+ score in India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, South Africa, England, Australia, New Zealand, West Indies, Ireland and the USA. No other player has registered 50+ scores in more than 8 different countries in Men’s T20Is. However, in Women’s T20Is, Stafanie Taylor scored fifties in 9 different cricket nations.

17. Rohit has 25 fifty-plus scores in T20Is which are the most for any player in this format. Rohit recorded 50-run mark in less than 25 balls on five different occasions. No other player has raised as many as five T20I fifties in fewer than 25 deliveries.

18. Rohit’s unbeaten 100 against England in the 2018 Bristol T20I is the only instance of a player scoring a hundred during a T20I series decider.

One of the best openers across formats:

19. Rohit, till date, stands as the only Indian opener to have scored centuries in all three formats of International Cricket. He scored 27 of his 29 ODI hundreds, three of six Test tons and all four T20I centuries as an opener.

20. During Sri Lanka’s tour of India, Rohit struck a century each in the Test, ODI and T20I series against the visitors. It is the only instance of a player scoring hundreds in all three International formats during a single tour.