Indore: In the third and final ODI played at the Holkar Stadium here today, the Indian team won by 90 runs to clean sweep New Zealand 3-0 in the series and along with this win, the Indian team became the number one team in the ICC One Day International Ranking. had become Indian team is already number one in T20 and Indian team is second in Test.
Batting first after losing the toss, Rohit and Gill put on a 200-run partnership to give the team a strong start. Rohit scored 101 runs in 85 balls with nine fours and six sixes while Gill played an innings of 112 runs in 78 balls with the help of 13 fours and five sixes. Hardik Pandya played an important role in taking the team’s score to 385 runs in the final overs with the help of three sixes and three fours in an innings of 54 runs off 38 balls.
The New Zealand team lost the wicket of Finn Allen in the first over. However, Devon Conway took over and put on 106 runs with Henry Nicholls, who scored 42 runs, and 78 runs with Daryl Mitchell, who scored 24 runs. Conway scored his third century in 71 balls. However, as soon as he got out, New Zealand’s run rate slowed down. For India, Shardul Thakur and Kuldeep Yadav took 3 each while Yuzvendra Chahal took 2 wickets and Hardik Pandya and Umran Malik took one wicket each.
Rohit Sharma reached the third position in the world in terms of most sixes and centuries in ODIs
Indian team captain Rohit Sharma scored a century with 6 sixes in the third and final ODI against New Zealand played here today. The century was Rohit’s 30th ODI century of his career and with it he equaled Ricky Ponting’s record for the most centuries in ODIs and moved into third position behind Sachin Tendulkar and Virat Kohli.
Sachin has scored 49 and Kohli has scored 46 centuries in ODIs. Hitting 6 sixes in today’s match, he overtook Sri Lanka’s Sanath Jayasuriya to become third in the world for most sixes in One Day Internationals. Rohit has 273 sixes in 241 matches while Jayasuriya has 270 sixes in 445 matches. Pakistan’s Shahid Afridi holds the record for most sixes in ODIs with 351, followed by West Indies’ Chris Gayle with 331 sixes. Former India captain MS Dhoni is fifth in the list with 229 sixes.