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If a list of the best opening batsmen of the ODI format is made in world cricket, then the names of Team India's current captain Rohit Sharma and former captain Sourav Ganguly will definitely be included in it. Both of them have tremendous records with the bat in the 50 overs format. While Sourav Ganguly played a total of 311 matches in his ODI career, Rohit Sharma has played 265 ODI matches so far, so we are going to tell you about the record of both the players after 265-265 ODI matches. Are.
Rohit Sharma ahead in terms of scoring runs
If we look at the record of Rohit Sharma and Sourav Ganguly after 265 matches in ODI, then Rohit Sharma appears ahead in terms of scoring runs. While Rohit has so far batted in 257 innings of 265 ODI matches and scored 10866 runs at an average of 49.17, while Sourav Ganguly's record after the same number of ODI matches is seen, he has batted in 256 innings at an average of 41.77. 9859 runs were scored. If we look at the number of centuries scored by Rohit and Ganguly after 265 ODI matches, hitman Rohit Sharma appears to be far ahead in that too. While Rohit has 31 centuries in his name, Sourav Ganguly had played 22 century innings after 265 ODI matches. While Ganguly was definitely ahead in terms of scoring half-centuries, he had 58 fifties in his name while Rohit Sharma was successful in scoring 57 fifties.
Rohit is far ahead in terms of hitting sixes
In ODI, Rohit Sharma is counted among those batsmen who have the ability to finish the entire match single-handedly on his day, something similar was seen with Sourav Ganguly also. If we look at the record of Rohit Sharma and Sourav Ganguly hitting sixes after 265-265 ODI matches, Rohit appears far ahead in it. While Rohit has hit 331 sixes so far, Ganguly has hit 166 sixes. Rohit is also ahead in hitting fours and he has hit 1011 fours while Ganguly had 965 fours in his name. Rohit's best score in an innings after 265 ODI matches was 264 runs, while Sourav Ganguly's best score was 183 runs.
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