IND vs AUS / Rohit Sharma becomes first Indian captain to be stumped out in the Border Gavaskar Trophy

Zoom News : Mar 01, 2023, 01:52 PM
IND vs AUS 3rd Test Match: The third match of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy is being played at the Holkar Stadium in Indore. In this match, Team India captain Rohit Sharma won the toss and decided to bat first, but the Indian team was bundled out for 109 runs in the first innings. During this innings, an unwanted record was also registered in the name of captain Rohit Sharma.

Rohit Sharma made this unwanted record

Team India captain Rohit Sharma got two lives at the beginning of this innings, but he could not take advantage of them. Rohit Sharma lost his wicket in the sixth over of the innings itself. Rohit was stumped by Matthew Kuhneman at the hands of wicketkeeper Alex Carey. Rohit played an inning of 12 runs in 23 balls with the help of three fours. With this, Rohit has become the first Indian captain to be stumped out in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy.

Included in the list of most number of stump outs

Captain Rohit Sharma has jointly reached the third place in terms of getting stumped out for the most number of times as an Indian. Rohit Sharma has been stumped out a total of 10 times so far. Rohit has equaled former captain Mohammad Azharuddin. At the same time, Sourav Ganguly is at number one in the list of players stumped most times, he was stumped out 15 times.

First innings piled on 109 runs only

Rohit Sharma won the toss for the first time in this series, but he could not take advantage of it. Team India could play only 33.2 overs in the first innings and got bundled out for 109 runs. Virat Kohli scored the maximum 22 runs in this innings from Team India, while Shubman Gill, playing for the first time in this series, contributed 21 runs. Apart from this, Shrikar Bharat and Umesh Yadav played innings of 17-17 runs.

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