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Record Alert: Rohit Becomes Quickest Asian Opener To Score 1000 Test Runs

By Sahil Mathur March 05, 2021 • 11:19 AM View: 2087

Rohit Sharma on Friday became the quickest opener from an Asian country to score 1000 test runs. Sharma took only 17 innings to reach this milestone. While doing so, he has now overtaken Mayank Agarwal, who did it in 19 innings.

Rohit has now become the third-fastest test opener, along with Graeme Smith, to score 1000 runs. They both are now behind Herbert Sutcliffe(13 innings) and Len Hutton(16 innings).

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