Rohit Sharma, the star batsman of the Indian team, hit a century in the first innings of the Test as the opening batsman.

Rohit Sharma, the star batsman of the Indian team, hit a century in the first innings of the Test as the opening batsman.

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Rohit Sharma, the star batsman of the Indian team, 

New Delhi :
Star batsman Rohit Sharma of the Indian team, as the opening batsman, already hit a century in the first innings of the Test. By the end of the first day's play of the first test, India has scored 202 runs and so far India has not dropped a single wicket.

Rohit Sharma is playing for 115 runs. However, on the first day, only about 60 overs could be played. But India has strengthened its grip in this match. Now today, shortly after, the game will start on the second day. It is expected that Rohit Sharma will advance his innings and Mayank Agarwal also complete his century, who is unbeaten on 84 at this time.

Meanwhile, the fact is that Rohit Sharma has been included in the list, who has already scored a century in the test while opening in the test. Although Rohit has played a century in the Test before this too, but the team India, which is craving for a good opening pair in the test, decided to send Rohit Sharma in the upper order as an experiment, which seems to be successful so far. . In Indian cricket, there have been only a few selected batsmen who have come to the ground for the opening batsman and put a century in it.

Before Rohit, three more batsmen have done this feat, now Rohit is the fourth batsman. Rohit's partner Shikhar Dhawan also scored a century in his first match in ODIs and T20s. Shikhar Dhawan played his debut match against Australia in Mohali. In this match, Dhawan faced 174 balls and scored 187 runs. In this innings, Dhawan hit 33 fours and two magnificent sixes. He gave this century only in March 2013. However, in many matches played after that, Shikhar could not do anything special. Shikhar has got a chance to play 34 Test matches, in which he has hit seven centuries and five fifties. He has scored 2315 runs so far. However, after constantly battling poor form in the test, he was shown the way out of the team.

Apart from this, another Indian batsman has scored a century in the first match itself. They are KL Rahul. He played his first match in December 2014, when he landed as a middle-order batsman, but after that the second match played in January 2015, he came as an opener. In this match, 110 runs were scored in the first innings of the match. This match was also played against Australia in Sydney. Rahul has played 36 Test matches so far and has scored five centuries and 11 half-centuries. He has scored 2006 runs. However, he also did not remain in the team for much of the day. Recently, in the series against West Indies also came in the field to bat in the opener, but they continued to play poorly, after which they were removed from the team. Now they are playing fresh domestic cricket again and are also doing consistently well.

After this comes the name of the youngest opening batsman Prithvi Shaw. He also hit a century in his very first match. Prithvi played his first match in October 2018 against West Indies in Rajkot. In the first innings of this match, Shaw played a brilliant innings of 134 runs. However Prithvi Shaw has played only two Test matches so far. In the second match too, he played innings of 70 and 33 not out. Now he is not a member of the Indian team.

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