{"id":3994,"date":"2022-07-07T23:32:38","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T18:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=231592"},"modified":"2022-07-07T23:32:38","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T18:02:38","slug":"ind-v-eng-rohit-sharma-completes-1000-t20i-runs-as-captain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ind-v-eng-rohit-sharma-completes-1000-t20i-runs-as-captain\/","title":{"rendered":"IND v ENG: Rohit Sharma completes 1000 T20I runs as captain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Ind+v+Eng\">T20I of the three-match series against England<\/a> on Thursday in Southampton, India\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Rohit+Sharma\">Rohit Sharma<\/a> completed his 1000 T20I run as captain.<\/p>\n<p>Rohit, who is leading the visiting squad in the first match\u00a0of the series, appears to have recovered well from COVID-19. Yet, despite a strong start with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Ishan+Kishan\">Ishan Kishan<\/a> at the bat, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Moeen+Ali\">Moeen Ali<\/a> removed Rohit for 24 runs off 14 balls, including 5 boundaries.<\/p>\n<p>For the records, Sharma has performed admirably for India in 90 T20I games while opening the batting, amassing 2,832 runs with a strike rate of 142.10. In the first inning, he opened the scoring with four hundreds and 21 fifties.<\/p>\n<p>Rohit Sharma has won every game since he was chosen to take over for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Virat+Kohli\">Virat Kohli<\/a> as India\u2019s fulltime captain. Following the dismal ICC Men\u2019s T20 World Cup 2021, India first defeated New Zealand in a three-match T20I series at home under his command. Then, earlier this year, they defeated the West Indies in a three-match ODI and T20I series. Before the commencement of the IPL in 2022, the Men in Blue thrashed Sri Lanka in three T20Is and a two-match Test series to clinch the hat-trick of series victories.<\/p>\n<p>India had chose to bat against England after winning the toss. For the visitors, pacer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Arshdeep+Singh\">Arshdeep Singh<\/a> is playing his debut T20I match. India triumphed 2-1 in the T20I series the previous time they toured England.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before being dismissed by Moeen Ali, who also dismissed Ishan in his subsequent over, Rohit played a quick 24 run innings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"featured_media":27030,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3123,1605],"class_list":["post-3994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-icc-t20i","tag-ind-v-eng"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}