Vinay Kumar
New Delhi: Indian captain Rohit Sharma scored a brilliant century in the second day of the first match of the Test series between India and Australia (IND vs AUS 1st Test Match, Nagpur 2023) being played in Nagpur. Remind you that the last Test century with the bat of Rohit Sharma came against England on 2 September 2021 at ‘The Oval’ ground in England. He scored an inning of 127 runs in that Test match. Since then, he could not score a single century between the latest Test match in Nagpur. Rohit Sharma completed 100 runs on 171st ball in this match. During this, 14 fours and 2 excellent sixes also came out of his bat.
Significantly, the second day’s match started at 9.30 am. India skipper Rohit Sharma and all-rounder dangerous spin bowler Ravichandran Ashwin started the day at the crease. Rohit started the batting with 56 runs and Ashwin with 0 runs.
Significantly, before the end of the first day’s play on Thursday, February 9, India were 77 runs at the loss of 1 wicket and before that Australia won the toss and came out to bat first in front of the dangerous bowling edge of the Indian bowlers in their first innings. Was reduced to 177 runs at the loss of 10 wickets in batting. In reply to Australia’s 177, India were all out for 77, which included an explosive 56 from skipper Rohit Sharma. These 56 runs from his bat included 9 fours and 1 magnificent six. After which, facing 59.1 overs of the day on the afternoon of Friday, February 10, India lost 5 wickets at a score of 168 runs. The fifth wicket was of Suryakumar Yadav, making his Test debut. After that Ravindra Jadeja came to support captain Rohit Sharma. Rohit Sharma completed his century during Jadeja’s partnership.
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Significantly, this is the 9th century of Rohit Sharma’s Test career. Remind you that Indian team captain Rohit Sharma made his Test debut in the first match of IND vs WI Test Series, 2013-14 played at Eden Gardens Stadium, Kolkata. That series was the Farewell series of Sachin Tendulkar’s career, i.e., the last Test series. Rohit Sharma was the number six batsman in the playing XI of that match. He created history in the very first innings of his debut match. In the first innings of the first match of his career, he faced 301 balls and scored 177 runs with the help of 23 fours and 1 six.
After that he did not look back and today he is the captain of the team. He has scored a total of 9 centuries and 14 half-centuries in his Test career so far. In the first innings of the latest match being played in Nagpur, he scored the 9th century of his Test career.
Playing-XI of both countries in AUS vs IND Nagpur Test
India
Rohit Sharma Captain, KL Rahul, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Shrikar Bharat (Bharat Wicket-keeper), Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin, Akshar Patel, Mohammed Shami, Mohammed Siraj.
Australia
David Warner Usman Khawaja, Marnus Labuschagne, Steve Smith, Matt Renshaw, Peter Handscomb, Alex Carey Wicket-keeper, Pat Cummins Captain , Nathan Lyon, Todd Murphy, Scott Boland.