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IND vs SA 3rd ODI: India's star batter Rohit Sharma scored a match-winning knock of 75 runs off 73 balls and stitched a brilliant partnership of 155 runs for the first wicket with Yashasvi Jaiswal, and gave the hosts a flying start while chasing. During the third ODI in Vizag, Rohit showed his batting prowess, hitting 7 fours and 3 sixes and helping the team win by 9 wickets, and they also won the series. Post winning this series, the Men in Blue celebrated by cutting a cake in their team's hotel, and in these celebrations, when Jaiswal, who had hit the first ODI, was seen offering a cake to him, Rohit didn't eat it.

A video had gone viral on social media, where he heard someone saying, “Nahi khale, mota ho jaunga wapis."

Rohit's hilarious reaction in this video has gone viral on social media.

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This viral video had left the fans stunned as Virat Kohli did take a bite, and it was Rohit Sharma who refused to do so.

Watch the video here:

During the third ODI, he didn't just help the team win the match; he also achieved the milestone of scoring 20000 runs in international cricket. He needed just 27 runs to achieve this feat, and he did so by taking a single in Keshav Maharaj's over.

He became the 4th Indian cricketer, Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, and Virat Kohli, to have scored 20000 runs. He has now scored 20,048 runs after playing in 504 matches and has surpassed AB de Villiers in the list of highest run-scorers.

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Most runs in international cricket for India

PLAYER MATCHES RUNS BEST 100/50s
Sachin Tendulkar 664 34,357 248* 100/164
Virat Kohli 556 27,975 254* 84/145
Rahul Dravid 504 24,064 270 48/145
Rohit Sharma 505 20,048 264 50/111
Sourav Ganguly 421 18,433 239 38/106

Apart from achieving this feat, he also surpassed David Warner's record of most sixes against South Africa across formats. Warner had played in 60 matches against the Proteas between 2009 and 2023 and had smashed 63 sixes, whereas Rohit too has hit as many sixes after playing in 58 matches.

Most sixes against South Africa in international cricket

PLAYER COUNTRY MATCHES RUNS SIXES
Rohit Sharma India 58 2119 64
David Warner Australia 60 3141 64
Jos Buttler England 48 1435 63
Chris Gayle West Indies 63 2719 61
Mitchell Marsh Australia 47 1409 52

He also has the record of smashing the most sixes in white-ball cricket as he has hit sixes against teams like Australia (138), Sri Lanka (86), and the West Indies (88).

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