Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma need just 94 runs to go past 5000 runs as a pair, with Rohit Sharma on the cusp of a special achievement in 1000th ODI.
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The India vs West Indies ODI in Ahmedabad on February 6 is historic for a lot of reasons. The match at the Narendra Modi stadium will be the 1000th ODI for India. This will make the Indian cricket team the first team to ever play 1000 ODIs. Rohit Sharma will be the captain of the Indian cricket team for the 1000th ODI. This will be the first series in which Rohit Sharma will be the full-time captain of the Indian cricket team. Virat Kohli stepped down as captain from all formats after the end of the South Africa tour.
Kohli had relinquished the T20 captaincy after the end of the ICC World T20 2021. Before the South Africa tour, Kohli was asked to give up the ODI captaincy. After the end of the Tests, Kohli relinquished the Test captaincy. Despite many rumors of a rift between Kohli and Rohit and with Kohli putting all those stories to rest, the duo is on the cusp of a special milestone ahead of the West Indies ODI in Ahmedabad.
Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli need just 94 runs to register 5000 runs in partnership runs. Kohli and Rohit are currently on 4906 runs with an average of 64 with 18 century partnerships. For Rohit, if he reaches 5000 runs with Kohli, he will join Kumar Sangakkara as the only other player to have 5000 runs with two partners in ODIs. Sangakkara has 5992 runs with Mahela Jayawardene and 5475 runs with Tillakaratne Dilshan. Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly lead the charts with 8227 runs. Here is the complete list
| Partners | Span | Matches | Runs | Average | Hundred |
| Sourav Ganguly, Sachin Tendulkar | 1992-2007 | 176 | 8227 | 47.55 | 26 |
| Mahela Jayawardene, Kumar Sangakkara | 2000-2015 | 151 | 5992 | 41.61 | 15 |
| Tillakaratne Dilshan, Kumar Sangakkara | 2000-2015 | 108 | 5475 | 53.67 | 20 |
| Marvan Atapattu, Sanath Jayasuriya | 1996-2007 | 144 | 5462 | 39.29 | 14 |
| Adam Gilchrist, Matthew Hayden | 2000-2008 | 117 | 5409 | 47.44 | 16 |
| Gordon Greenidge, Desmond Haynes | 1979-1991 | 103 | 5206 | 52.58 | 15 |
| Shikhar Dhawan, Rohit Sharma | 2011-2021 | 112 | 5023 | 45.25 | 17 |
| Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli | 2010-2021 | 81 | 4906 | 64.55 | 18 |
Ishan Kishan will open the innings while Rohit has stated that he would like to see Kuldeep Yadav and Yuzvendra Chahal together. “These two guys have been great performers for us in the past. They’ve certainly created an impact in those years whenever they’ve played together. In the middle, why they have been left out was because of combination. We wanted to get an extra batter in. At times, we wanted to get an extra seamer in. So that is probably why one of the two have missed out, but it’s certainly on my mind to get them back together, Kuldeep especially,” Rohit stated.
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On captaining all three formats, Rohit stated, “There’s time for that. My focus is on limited-overs cricket. Workload management is important. We could lose a few series because we need to keep changing players, but we’re ready for that. Forget Test captaincy for now. I have no idea for now. There is West Indies and Sri Lanka series, for now, to focus on,” Rohit said.
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