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🇮🇳 7 - Rishabh Pant

🇿🇦 6 - Faf du Plessis

🇵🇰 5 - Mohammad Rizwan

🏝️ 4 - Shai Hope

Shreyas Iyer lost 8 matches while defending 200+ total in T20s.

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Different form of cricket wise and overall.

Shane Tendulkar vs Brett Ganguly

whenever hes given the ball, almost always he’s taken wickets. also has best spell by an indian opener in t20i, and only indian to have a fifty+wicket in wc final.

hes ranked 17 in icc rankings too, above axar and shivam too; obviously they dont matter much but rather than playing too many all rounders how about using the ones we already have right? what do you all feel?

I genuinely don't know what we watched last night in Guwahati.

West Indies put 405/7 on the board. Three different batters scored centuries. At that point, you look at the scoreboard and think, okay, this is probably game over.

Then Rohit Sharma walked out.

And apparently 406 wasn't a target. It was an invitation.

Rohit looked like the Rohit from his absolute prime. Pull shots, sixes, those effortless drives... everything was coming off. He scored 101 off 75, but the number that really caught me was 12,000 ODI runs.

Only Sachin Tendulkar and Virat Kohli had done it for India before him.

And then there was Gill.

Shubman Gill.

223

Not 120.

Not 150.

Not even 180.

223 fucking not out.

And the craziest part?

He got his double century in just 117 balls, making it the fastest ODI double hundred ever.

There was a point where I stopped watching the scoreboard because it didn't even feel real anymore.

405 had looked like a mountain.

Gill and Rohit turned it into a practice chase.

Their opening partnership went to 255, India's highest-ever opening partnership at home. Rohit eventually fell after his century, but by then the damage was already done.

And Gill just kept going.

200 came.

Then 210.

Then 220.

And eventually 223

India got to 406 with 39 balls still left.

That's not just a win.

That's the kind of scorecard you stare at twice because you think you've read it wrong.

And there's another crazy detail: West Indies had three centurions in their own innings — John Campbell, Shai Hope and Amir Jangoo. They scored 405 and still lost by eight wickets.

Even Kuldeep Yadav quietly joined the party, becoming the fastest Indian spinner to reach 200 ODI wickets.

Five centuries in one ODI.

811 runs.

A 400+ chase.

Rohit crossing 12,000.

Gill smashing the fastest double hundred.

And India winning with nearly seven overs to spare.

At some point you just have to laugh.

Guwahati didn't host an ODI yesterday. It hosted a batting fever dream.

And honestly, I'm still trying to process it.

I honestly feel 2027 could be a major turning point for ODIs. T20 cricket keeps growing, bilateral ODI series are becoming less relevant, and players increasingly prioritise franchise cricket.

The 2027 World Cup could still be huge, especially because it may mark the final World Cup era for several superstars. Players like Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli and Ravindra Jadeja have already moved towards the final stages of their international careers, and many other legends from different teams could also be gone by then.

But what happens after that?

Does ODI cricket have a long-term future after 2027, or are we entering the final chapter of 50-over cricket?

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Three Indian batting legends showing just how extraordinary their records are in the 50-over format