Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli
Virat Kohli And Rohit Sharma: Indian team star batsmen Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli have taken retirement from Test cricket. Earlier, after winning the T20 World Cup 2024, both of them said goodbye to T20 International. Now both the legendary batsmen of India will be seen playing only in ODI format. The biggest question is when do these two giants play for India?
Indian team will play a total of 9 ODIs in the year 2025
The T20 World Cup 2026 is to be held in the joint host of India and Sri Lanka. For this reason, the focus of all teams is on T20 cricket. Teams also play less ODI matches in this changing era of T20 cricket. In the year 2025, the Indian team has to play a total of 9 ODIs, out of which three against Bangladesh, three against Australia and three against South Africa.
First ODI will be held against Bangladesh on August 17
In August, the Indian team will visit Bangladesh, where it will play three ODIs and the same match T20 series. Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli can be seen playing in the ODI series. The Indian team will play the first match of the ODI series against Bangladesh at Shee-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium on August 17.
Indian team schedule of ODI series against Bangladesh:
- First ODI- 17 August, Dhaka
- Second ODI- August 20, Dhaka
- Third ODI- 23 August, Chittagong
Both batsmen scored more than 10,000 runs in ODIs
Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli are counted among the best players of ODI cricket. For the past decade, both batsmen have remained an important link for Indian batting order. Rohit has scored a total of 11168 runs in ODI cricket for India so far. He is the only batsman in the world with whom three double centuries have been scored in ODI cricket. Rohit’s record of scoring the highest score in an innings of ODIs is also in the name of Rohit. At the same time, Virat Kohli has scored a total of 14181 runs in his ODI career so far, in which 51 centuries have been scored on his bat. He is the highest century batsman in ODIs.
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