Ever since Gautam Gambhir became the head coach of Team India, there have been reports from time to time about his relationship with Rohit Sharma deteriorating. Only Rohit and Gambhir know how much truth is there in those rumours, but both of them have been among the best opening batsmen of the Indian cricket team.

Rohit and Gambhir have played memorable innings many times to give historic victories to the Indian team. Who can forget Gambhir’s inning of 97 runs, when he played a role in helping India win the 2011 World Cup final. While opening, Rohit has scored 264 runs, which is the biggest individual innings in ODI cricket. Know here who has been the best opening batsman of Team India?

Rohit or Gambhir, who is best?

Rohit Sharma has played 199 innings as an opener in ODI cricket, in which he has 9865 runs in his name. Rohit is still playing and after scoring 135 runs, he will complete 10 thousand runs as an opener. While opening, he has scored 32 centuries and 49 fifties for the Indian team. Rohit’s average while opening is 54.50.

Talking about Gautam Gambhir, he played 91 innings while opening and scored 3367 runs. As an opener, Gambhir scored runs at an average of 39.61, played 8 centuries and 21 half-centuries. Gautam Gambhir had said goodbye to the game of cricket in December 2018.

Rohit close to creating history

In the history of ODI cricket, there are only 4 batsmen who have scored 10 thousand or more runs while opening. As an opener, Sachin Tendulkar scored 15310 runs, Sanath Jayasuriya scored 12740 runs and Chris Gayle scored 10179 runs. Rohit Sharma is just 135 runs away from joining the list of great batsmen.

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