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Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli’s bat has roared in the first ODI match against South Africa. Virat has scored the 76th half-century of his career, on the other hand, Rohit Sharma has scored the 60th fifty of his ODI career. Rohit played an innings of 57 runs in this match. Apart from this, Rohit Sharma has also made the record of hitting most sixes in the history of ODI cricket. Now he has 352 sixes in his name.
Rohit Sharma opened with Yashasvi Jaiswal in the first ODI against South Africa. Jaiswal was out after scoring just 18 runs, but he took his innings forward along with Virat Kohli and completed his half-century in 43 balls. Rohit hit 5 fours and 3 sixes in his innings.
On the other hand, Virat Kohli came to bat at number-3, he completed his fifty in 48 balls. He completed his 76th half-century by hitting a powerful six. Rohit and Virat also made a huge partnership of 136 runs in this match. After losing the toss in this match being played in Ranchi, the Indian team was invited to bat first.
Highest fifty in ODI for India
The highest number of fifties in the history of ODI cricket for India is in the name of Sachin Tendulkar, who had scored 96 fifties in his career. At second place is Rahul Dravid, who scored 82 ODI half-centuries and Virat Kohli is at third place in this list with 76 half-centuries. MS Dhoni was fourth with 73 half-centuries and Sourav Ganguly, who was at number-5, scored 71 half-centuries. Now Rohit Sharma has come at number-6 in this list, who now has 60 ODI fifties in his name.
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