Rohit Sharma Makes History as Oldest T20 Captain in India vs Afghanistan Series

2024-01-11 14:52:00

The first T20I of Afghanistan’s tour of India has started in Mohali. Indian captain Rohit Sharma won the toss and chose to field.

After entering the field to lead India, Rohit was looking for a smashing record. Rohit Sharma holds the record of being the oldest captain to lead India in the T20 format.

Rohit achieved this feat by surpassing superstar Shikhar Dhawan.

Rohit’s age is 36 years and 256 days on January 11, 2024. Dhawan was 35 years and 236 days old when he took over the captaincy in the match once morest Sri Lanka in 2021.

With more matches to go in the series, Rohit Sharma is sure to improve this record.

Apart from this, many individual achievements may come to Rohit Sharma in this series. Rohit has a list of achievements ahead of him, the captain leading India to the most T20 wins, the captain with the most sixes in T20s and the second player to score 4,000 runs in the T20 format.

Meanwhile, Afghanistan, who continue to bat, are three wickets for 120 runs following 16 overs. Mohammad Nabi with 39 runs off 22 balls and Azmatullah Omarzai with 27 runs off 18 balls are at the crease.

India playing eleven

Rohit Sharma (captain), Shubman Gill, Tilak Verma, Shivam Dubey, Jitesh Sharma (wicket keeper), Rinku Singh, Axar Patel, Washington Sundar, Ravi Bishnoi, Arshdeep Singh, Mukesh Kumar.

Afghanistan Playing XI

Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wicket keeper), Ibrahim Sadran (captain), Azmatullah Omarzai, Rahmat Shah, Muhammad Nabi, Najeebullah Sadran, Karim Jannat, Gulabdeen Naib, Fazalaq Farooqui, Naveen ul Haq, Mujeeb ur Rehman.

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