Under the captaincy of Rohit Sharma, Team India has performed brilliantly so far in the 5-match Test series against England. The Indian team is currently ahead 2-1 in this series. Team India achieved a historic victory by 434 runs in the Rajkot Test. Captain Rohit Sharma scored a brilliant century in this series.
Big record on target of captain Rohit
Rohit Sharma has scored 11 centuries in Tests so far. Team India has won all these matches. As a captain, he has scored 3 test centuries. He is third in the list of Indian captains who have scored Test match winning centuries. Now Rohit has a chance to overtake MS Dhoni in this list. MS Dhoni led Team India to victory in 27 test matches under his captaincy. During this period he scored 4 centuries. Along with this, Rohit has scored 3 centuries in 8 test wins. On the other hand, Mohammad Azharuddin also scored 4 test match winning centuries as captain.
Virat Kohli is on top in this list
Virat Kohli tops the list of Indian captains who have won Test matches and scored centuries. Virat Kohli has captained Team India in 68 test matches. Meanwhile, Team India has won 40 matches. In these 40 wins, Virat Kohli played 11 century innings. Apart from Virat, no Indian captain has scored more than 4 centuries in a Test match win.
Indian captain who scored most centuries in test matches
- 11 centuries – Virat Kohli
- 4th century – Mohammad Azharuddin
- 4 centuries – MS Dhoni
- 3 centuries – Rohit Sharma
- 3 centuries – Sunil Gavaskar
- Third century – Sourav Ganguly
Rohit's captaincy innings in Rajkot test
Indian captain Rohit Sharma played a brilliant inning of 131 runs in the first innings of the Test played against England in Rajkot. At one time Team India had lost 3 wickets for 33 runs. But Rohit Sharma made a brilliant partnership with Ravindra Jadeja and brought Team India back into the match.