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Gautam Gambhir feels Rohit Sharma is better than Ricky Ponting (Twitter)
Rohit Sharma has scored 9537 runs in 236 ODIs with 29 hundreds while Ponting has scored 13704 runs in 375 ODIs.
Gautam Gambhir has shocked the cricket fraternity as he has called Rohit Sharma a ‘better’ player than legendary Australian skipper Ricky Ponting.
Rohit has an unblemished record in ODI cricket, with the Indian skipper scoring 9537 runs in 236 ODIs at an average of 48.90 with 29 hundreds.
He has also breached the 200-run mark thrice, including his best score of 264.
Meanwhile, Ponting played 375 ODIs in his playing career between 1995–2012, scoring 13704 runs at an average of 42.03 with a best score of 164.
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The Australian great scored 30 hundreds and 82 half-centuries while leading his country World Won the cup in 2003 and 2007.
speaking on the star Play before the second ODI between India and Sri Lanka, Gambhir drew a startling comparison between Rohit and Ponting.
He said, ‘The surprising fact is that in the last four or five years he has scored so many hundreds. Rohit Sharma was not in this consistency before last five-six years. In the last five-six-seven years he has definitely scored around 20 hundreds,” Gambhir said.
Ever since the ‘Hitman’ was promoted as an opener by former Indian skipper MS Dhoni, he became a lethal hitter, smashing 19 ODI tons between 2017 and 2020, even though his last century came in January 2020. came back
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Gambhir’s shocking comparison stunned fellow panellist Sanjay Manjrekar as he pointed to the former and said, “You missed it.”
However, the 2011 World Cup winner replied, “No, he is a better player than Ricky Ponting. Because Ricky has a poor record in the subcontinent.”
In fact, Ricky Ponting played 41 ODIs against India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, but could only score six hundreds, while Rohit Sharma has a much better record outside the subcontinent.
The 35-year-old has 13 ODI hundreds and averages 47 in overseas conditions.
Rohit came so close to ending his wait for the much-awaited ODI ton as he scored 83 in the first ODI against Sri Lanka, but missed the milestone, while he managed only 17 in the second ODI at the Eden Gardens. Could
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