London: Team India played their first match on Wednesday in the 12th World Cup. Team India, who played against the South Africa, won the match by 6 wickets. While the India bowlers, while bowling best before, stopped South Africa for 227 runs, Rohit's unbeaten innings helped the team achieve the target by losing 4 wickets in 47.3 overs. In the match, team India opener Rohit Sharma's bat went a lot and he put up a brilliant century.

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Rohit has left behind former captain Sourav Ganguly and Sri Lankan stalwart opener Tillakaratne Dilshan with 23 centuries. Ganguly and Dilshan have scored 22-22 centuries. Rohit Sharma also completed 12000 runs in his international career. Now his one-day stand has been 8132, 1585 in Tests and 2331 runs in T20. Rohit Sharma completed his 8000 international runs as an opener, playing the team India side.

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With this, after Sachin Tendulkar and Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma has now become the third Indian to have the highest century in ODI cricket. Rohit Sharma has become the 9th cricketer in the world to score the highest hundred in ODI cricket. Rohit Sharma has also smashed Sachin Tendulkar's record while chasing the target. Chasing the target in ODI cricket, Rohit Sharma has scored 9 centuries while in this case, Virat is the first with 11 centuries while Sachin Tendulkar has 8 centuries to his name.