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India’s six-wicket win over Bangladesh within the 2025 Champions Trophy marked Rohit Sharma’s a centesimal victory as captain, helping him join Virat Kohli, MS Dhoni and Mohammad Azharuddin within the elite list.
Rohit Sharma (Picture Credit: PTI)
India’s six-wicket win over Bangladesh within the 2025 Champions Trophy on Thursday (February 20) helped Rohit Sharma achieve a century of triumphs as captain in international cricket. He is barely the fourth Indian after MS Dhoni, Mohammad Azharuddin and Virat Kohli with 100 or more wins as captain across the three formats.
Rohit achieved it in his 138th match as India’s captain. The Men in Blue bowled Bangladesh out for 228 runs in the primary innings and chased it in 46.3 overs, with six wickets to spare.
Mohammed Shami’s five-wicket haul with the ball and Shubman Gill’s unbeaten 101 with the bat were the pillars of the massive win that began the ICC tournament on a positive note.
But Rohit also contributed an excellent 36-ball 41 laced with seven fours that set the inspiration of the chase and relieved the remainder of the team from some pressure on the slowing pitch. The knock also made him the second-fastest to finish 11,000 ODI runs, only behind Kohli.
Rohit now has a win percentage of over 72% in international cricket, which is the very best amongst all captains with a tenure of greater than 22 matches. Compared, Dhoni’s win percentage was 53.61, Azharuddin’s was 47.05 and Kohli’s 63.38. He has already led India to a T20 World Cup title and an ODI World Cup title and this match showed that India are well-prepared to go so far as possible in his first Champions Trophy as captain, too.
“Very hard to say that (on the pitch playing slow) after only one game. You play the conditions and check out and take into consideration what you do. We assessed the conditions well as a team. You’re sure to be under pressure in a tournament just like the Champions Trophy,” Rohit said after the match, as quoted by Cricbuzz.
“Very joyful for him (Shami), very long time waiting. We all know what he brings to us. We’d like guys like him to get up when we’d like… We all know the category that Gill has, Shouldn’t surprise anyone. It was good to see him bat till the tip. May take him for dinner tomorrow,” he added.
India will next play Pakistan on Sunday, February 23.
