Asia Cup 2022: Now there is only a few days left for the start of Asia Cup 2022. In this important tournament to be held in UAE, defending winners India will go to defend their title. India captured the title in the T20 format in 2016 under the captaincy of Mahendra Singh Dhoni, while under the captaincy of Rohit Sharma, Team India won the ODI format in 2020. In such a situation, Rohit would like to win the T20 title for the first time under his leadership.

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Eyes of Rohit Sharma will be on making Team India champion for the 8th time

Significantly, India has won the Asia Cup title seven times so far. While Rohit Sharma’s eyes will be on making Team India the champion for the 8th time, on the other hand he will try to break a big record of Sachin Tendulkar. If Rohit scores another 89 runs in the upcoming Asia Cup, he will overtake Sachin as the highest run-scorer in this tournament as well as become the highest run-scorer in the tournament.

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Sachin has scored 971 runs in 21 innings of 23 matches played in this tournament at an average of 51.10, while Rohit Sharma has 883 runs in 26 innings of 27 matches with an average of 42.04. That is, there is a gap of only 88 runs between Sachin and Rohit. Virat Kohli is at the third position in the list of Indian players with the most runs. Kohli has so far scored 766 runs in 16 matches in this tournament at an impressive average of 63.83.

Highest run-scorer Indian batsman in Asia Cup

971 – Sachin Tendulkar
883 – Rohit Sharma
766 – Virat Kohli
690 – MS Dhoni

Talking about the highest run-scorer in the Asia Cup, this record is in the name of Sanath Jayasuriya of Sri Lanka. He has scored 1220 runs in 25 matches in this tournament, while his country’s former captain Kumar Sangakkara is in second place with 1075 runs. While Sachin is on the third position in this list.

Highest run scorer in Asia Cup

1220 – Sanath Jayasuriya
1075 – Kumar Sangakkara
971 – Sachin Tendulkar
907 – Shoaib Malik
883 – Rohit Sharma