Ahmedabad, March 18: Senior opener Rohit Sharma on Thursday became the second Indian to complete 9000 runs in T20 cricket after skipper Virat Kohli.
Rohit achieved the feat when he drove spinner Adil Rashid for a single during the fourth T20 International against England at the Narendra Modi Stadium. He scored 12 runs in Thursday’s match. He was dismissed by pacer Jofra Archer.
Rohit is the ninth highest-run getter in the T20 format. More than half of his T20 runs came in the Indian Premier League.
In T20 Internationals, Rohit has scored 2800 runs from 110 matches at an average of 32.41 and with a strike rate of 138.36.
Across T20s, he has amassed 9001 runs from 342 matches with a strike rate of 133.36.
He has to his credit six centuries and 63 fifties in the game’s shortest format.
Last January, Rohit became the third fastest player in the world to reach 9000 runs in One-day Internationals. (PTI)
