Milestones await Rohit as India take on B”desh in Rajkot

TIL Desk Sports/  India stand-in captain Rohit Sharma is on the brink of becoming the first man from his country to play 100 T20I internationals when India take on Bangladesh for the second of the three-match series in Rajkot on Thursday.

Rohit will join Shoaib Malik of Pakistan (111) and Indian women”s cricketer Harmanpreet Kaur (100) in becoming only the third cricketer to play 100 international matches in the shortest format of the game. The pressure will be on Rohit who saw India lose to Bangladesh in the opener in Delhi last Sunday by seven wickets.

Rohit has been prolific in T20s, scoring 2452 runs with four hundreds to his name and 17 fifties. Rohit on Sunday reclaimed the top spot in the list of highest run-scorer in T20 internationals during the first T20I at the Arun Jaitley Stadium.