Rohit Sharma Aims MS Dhoni’s Historic India Captaincy Record for T20I Return

Rohit Sharma Aims MS Dhoni’s Historic India Captaincy Record for T20I Return: As we all know that, Rohit Sharma and Kohli return to T20I series to play against Afghanistan after 2022 T20I series. And for Rohit, he came to T20I series with the interest to acheive something big.

As he has an oppurtunity to equal MS Dhoni at the top of the list of Indian captains with most wins in the shortest format of cricket.

Can Rohit Sharma Beat MS Dhoni Wins As a Captain?

After 2022 as Rohit stopped T20I series, he returned to play T20I series because of his personal landmark. If you see MS Dhoni, in his career he has won 42 wins out of 72 matches as captain T20Is.

Whereas till now, Rohit has won 39 wins in just 51 matches of Shortest format. If he would lead the team in Afghanistan series, if they won the matches of 3, he can rewrite MS Dhoni success in shortest format.

As Hardik Pandya and Surya Kumar Yadav are out with injuries, BCCI team approached Rohit to lead T20I. And they also brought back Virat Kohli.

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Top List of Most Wins As a Captain in T20Is

If you see the top list of Most wins in T20Is as a captain,

• Asghar Afghan (Afghanistan) – 42
• MS Dhoni (India) – 42
• Babar Azam (Pakistan) – 42
• Eoin Morgan (England) – 42
• Brian Masaba (Uganda) – 42
• Aaron Finch (Australia) – 40
• Rohit Sharma (India) – 39

Rohit Sharma has the highest win percentage in T20Is with 76.74 compared to Virat Kohli as he just has 60. Kohli led the T20Is of 50 matches and he won 30 out of it.

India squad for Afghanistan T20Is

Rohit Sharma (Captain), Shubman Gill, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Virat Kohli, Tilak Varma, Rinku Singh, Jitesh Sharma (wk), Sanju Samson (wk), Shivam Dube, Washington Sundar, Axar Patel, Ravi Bishnoi, Kuldeep Yadav, Arshdeep Singh, Avesh Khan, Mukesh Kumar

Schedule: IND vs AFG, T20I series

1st T20I on January 11 in Mohali

2nd T20I on January 14 in Indore

3rd T20I on January 17 in Bengaluru

In this T20I series, everyone has an eye on these two veteran batters, Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli as they are returning to these shortest format after a long time. Even selectors facedcriticism on recallingthem to T20Is.