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New Delhi: Indian captain Rohit Sharma has scored a century in the Nagpur Test. The first match of the Test series is being played between India and Australia. Rohit did a great batting in this match. Rohit took a special record in his name as soon as he scored a century. He has become the first Indian captain to score a century in all three formats (ODI, Test and T20).
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The Australian team was all out on the score of 177 runs on Thursday on the first day of the Nagpur Test. In response to this, the Indian team is batting. Rohit scored a century on Friday, the second day of the match for India. By the time of writing the news, he had scored 105 runs facing 180 balls. Rohit’s innings included 14 fours and 2 sixes. After Rohit’s century, the entire dressing room stood up and applauded.
With this, Rohit Sharma has equaled Virat Kohli by scoring a century. Let us tell you that Virat Kohli captained Australia for the first time in the year 2014 and scored a century. Similarly, Rohit Sharma has also scored a strong century while captaining in the first Test against Australia. However, in the year 2014, Virat Kohli scored a century in both the innings as captain.
With his century in the Nagpur Test, Rohit has become the fourth captain to score a century in all three formats. The names of Tillakaratne Dilshan, Faf du Plessis and Babar Azam are included in this list, who have scored centuries in all three formats as captain.
If we talk about Rohit Sharma’s Test career, then Rohit has scored 3209 runs while playing a total of 46 Test matches. During this he has scored 8 centuries. At the same time, by scoring a century in the second day’s play, he scored the 9th century of his Test career. Please tell that Rohit has also scored a double century in the Test.
