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IND vs AUS 3rd ODI: India's star batter Rohit Sharma had scored a gritty knock of 73 runs off 97 balls during the second ODI against Australia, but his efforts went in vain as the visitors lost the match and failed to level the series. In his innings of 73 runs, he had broken lots of records, and in the 3rd ODI, he will break many more records.

If Rohit can score 93 runs in the next ODI, then he will be the highest run-scorer as an Indian opener. Till now, he has scored 15666 runs as an opener after 376 innings. Virender Sehwag ended his career after scoring 15758 runs in 388 innings.

Most runs for India as opener (Tests+ODIs+T20Is)

PLAYER MATCHES INNINGS RUNS BEST 100/50
Virender Sehwag 321 388 15,758 319 36/65
Rohit Sharma 351 376 15,666 264 44/81
Sachin Tendulkar 346 342 15,335 200* 45/75
Sunil Gavaskar 202 286 12,258 221 34/67
Shikhar Dhawan 268 288 10,867 190 24/55

Sanath Jayasuriya has the overall record of scoring the most runs as an opener.

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He has played in 502 matches as an opener between 1993 and 2011 and scored 19232 runs after playing in 559 innings. Apart from him, Chris Gayle, David Warner, Graeme Smith, Desmond Haynes, and Sehwag are the other batters in this list.

Most runs as opener (Tests+ODIs+T20Is)

PLAYER TEAM MATCHES INNINGS RUNS
Sanath Jayasuriya Sri Lanka 502 559 19,232
Chris Gayle West Indies 438 503 18,812
David Warner Australia 374 462 18,744
Graeme Smith South Africa 340 418 16,938
Desmond Haynes West Indies 354 438 16,120
Virender Sehwag India 321 388 15,758
Rohit Sharma India 351 376 15,666
Sachin Tendulkar India 346 342 15,335
Tamim Iqbal Bangladesh 387 447 15,153
Alastair Cook England 250 374 15,110

Apart from this, Rohit also surpassed Shahid Afridi's tally of smashing the most sixes in this format.

Rohit, who played in his debut ODI match against Ireland way back in 2007, has hit 346 sixes after playing in 275 matches, whereas Afridi had smashed 351 sixes after playing in 98 matches.

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He needs to smash six sixes and surpass Afridi's record. The veteran Indian batter does have the record of hitting the most sixes.

Most sixes in ODIs

PLAYER TEAM(S) MATCHES RUNS SIXES
Shahid Afridi Asia, ICC, Pakistan 398 8064 351
Rohit Sharma India 275 11,249 346
Chris Gayle West Indies, ICC 301 10,480 331
Sanath Jayasuriya Sri Lanka, Asia 445 13,430 270
MS Dhoni India, Asia 350 10,773 229

Rohit’s ODI record at SCG

He has played in five ODIs till now here and has scored 333 runs after playing in five innings. His average here is 66.67, and he has smashed one ton and two half-centuries.

Rohit’s ODI scores at Sydney Cricket Ground

RUNS BALLS 4/6s AGAINST DATE
1 3 0/0 Australia February 24, 2008
66 87 6/0 Australia March 2, 2008
34 48 1/2 Australia March 26, 2015
99 108 9/1 Australia January 23, 2016
133 129 10/6 Australia January 12, 2019

During his last match at this venue in this format, he scored 133 runs off 129 balls, and in the match before that, he scored 99 runs.

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