In the second league match of the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 against Pakistan, Indian captain and opener batsman Rohit Sharma has won a big and new world record during his innings. In this match, the Pakistan team batting first, scoring 241 runs in 49.4 overs, gave India a target of 242 runs to win.
Rohit Sharma completed 9000 runs as an opener in ODI format in 181 innings, while earlier Sachin Tendulkar did this in 197 innings. Now Rohit Sharma has left Sachin Tendulkar behind and he came first. At number three in this list is Sourav Ganguly who did this in 231 innings while Chris Gayle completed 9 thousand runs in 246 innings as openers.
Batsmen who scored 9 thousand runs in the lowest innings as an opener in ODI
181 Rohit Sharma
197 Sachin Tendulkar
231 Sourav Ganguly
246 Chris Gayle
253 Adam Gilchrist
268 Sanath Jaisaraya
Rohit became the sixth batsman to complete 9000 runs
Rohit Sharma became the world’s sixth batsman to score 9000 runs in the ODI format. Earlier in ODIs, batsmen who scored 9000 as an opener were Tendulkar, Jayasuriya, Chris Gayle, Gilchrist, Ganguly. As an opener, the record of scoring the most runs in ODIs is recorded in Tendulkar’s name, while Rohit is at number six in this list.
