Rohit Sharma Becomes 1st Indian Batsman To Score Tons In All 3 Formats As Opening Batsman

Indian batsman Rohit Sharma on Wednesday Oct 02,2019 became the first player from the country to score a century in all three formats of the game as an opener when he smashed an unbeaten knock during the first Test of the three-match series against South Africa at the ACA-VDCA Stadium in Visakhapatnam.

The 32-year-old first pulled back his 11th Test half-century before notching up his fourth hundred in the longest format of the game off 154 balls. He reached the three-figure mark with two runs on the last delivery of the 54th over by Senuran Muthusamy.

100 on maiden innings opening the batting (India)

Player	Score	Against	Venue	Season	Result
Shikhar Dhawan	187	Aus	Mohali	2012/13	Won
KL Rahul	110	Aus	Sydney	2014/15	Draw
Prithvi Shaw	134	WI	Rajkot	2018/19	Won
Rohit Sharma	115*	SA	Vizag	2019/20	In progress

By scoring a ton, Rohit Sharma became the 7th batsman in the world to hit a hundred as an opener in each format of the game after -

• West Indies' Chris Gayle
• New Zealand's Brendon McCullum and Martin Guptill
• Sri Lanka's Tillakaratne Dilshan
• Pakistan's Ahmed Shehzad
• Australia's Shane Watson and 
• Bangladesh's Tamim Iqbal.

This was Rohit Sharma's 4th century in Test cricket and all 4 have come at home. There are only 3 players to have scored more hundreds in home Tests without scoring a century in away games - Mominul Haque (8), Stanley Jackson (5) and Chandu Borde (5).

This is also Rohit Sharma's first century against South Africa against whom he scored just 149 runs in his 12 previous outings at an average of 12.41.