Rohit Sharma βs T20I Milestone: Indian team captain Rohit Sharma has made a new achievement in T20I cricket. Rohit Sharma has become the first and only player in the world to play 150 matches in T20I cricket. In this way he has created history. Sachin Tendulkar holds the world record for playing the most number of matches in One Day International and Test cricket and now another Indian player has made this world record in T20I.
Rohit Sharma is the first batsman in the world to play 150 T20I matches :-
As soon as Rohit Sharma entered the field for the toss in the second match of the three-match T20I series against Afghanistan at the Holkar Stadium in Indore, he became the player to play 150 T20I matches. Till now no player has been able to play more than 140 matches in T20I cricket, but Rohit Sharma has touched the figure of 150. Irelandβs Paul Stirling is at second place in this list. He has played 134 matches for his country.
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The third name in this list is that of George Dockrell for Ireland. He has played 128 T20I matches for his team. Shoaib Malik has played 124 matches for Pakistan and ICC. He is at number four in this list.
Players who played most T20I matches :-
- 150 β Rohit Sharma
- 134 β Paul Sterling
- 128 β George Dockrell
- 124 β Shoaib Malik
- 122 β Martin Guptill
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