Gautam Gambhir Credits MS Dhoni For Making Rohit Sharma’s Career – India captain and opener Rohit Sharma became the 6th Indian batsman and 15th overall to cross the 10,000 runs landmark in ODI cricket on Tuesday in Colombo during his terrific knock of 53 runs off 48 balls against Sri Lanka in the Super 4 round match in the Asia Cup 2023.
Rohit Sharma reached this major milestone with a six to Kasun Rajitha.
Rohit Sharma’s career had started really slowly and was filled with struggle. He was the fourth slowest Indian to reach 2000 ODI runs, but such has been the turnaround that he became the second-fastest in the world to 10,000 ODI runs.
This turnaround in Rohit’s career was made possible by only one man – MS Dhoni. MS Dhoni backed Rohit Sharma for the first six years of his career during his struggle and inconsistency phase. Dhoni then asked Rohit to open the batting in the 2013 Champions Trophy and that changed it all for Rohit Sharma.
This was recently once again acknowledged by former India batsman Gautam Gambhir. While many captains would have given up on Rohit after his years of struggle early on, MS Dhoni backed him knowing Rohit’s talent and potential, something which we are now seeing Rohit do with Suryakumar Yadav in the ODI team.
Rohit Sharma is Rohit Sharma today because of MS Dhoni: Gautam Gambhir
While some fans feel that Gautam Gambhir has some sort of rift with MS Dhoni, that has been proven wrong by this recent statement from Gambhir, who credited MS Dhoni for the success of Rohit Sharma.
During the rain break in the IND vs SL match, speaking with Star Sports, Gautam Gambhir said. “Rohit Sharma is Rohit Sharma today because of MS Dhoni. MS backed him continuously in his initial struggling phase.”
Rohit Sharma reached his 10,000 ODI runs milestone in his 241st ODI innings. He’s the second-fastest to do so; only Virat Kohli was faster, breaching the milestone mark in only 205th innings. Indian batting legend Sachin Tendulkar conquered the 10,000 runs mountain in 259 ODI innings; the list is followed by Sourav Ganguly and Ricky Ponting.
Fastest to 10,000 ODI runs (by innings):
205 – Virat Kohli
241 – Rohit Sharma
259 – Sachin Tendulkar
263 – Sourav Ganguly
266 – Ricky Ponting
