IND vs SA Test: India vs South Africa Test Series: The Indian cricket team will play a two-match Test series against South Africa under the captaincy of Rohit Sharma and will start on December 26. In this Test series, Team India will be eyeing the first-time on winning Test series in South Africa, and Team India is also seen in this situation under the captaincy of Rohit Sharma.
Rohit Sharma came to South Africa in the year 2018 before this Test series and he did not perform well in the Test series on this tour and he was not even the captain of the team. This time, the captaincy of the Test is in the hands of Rohit Sharma and if he scored a single century during the two-match Test series on this tour, he will join this special list of Virat Kohli and Sachin Tendulkar.
Rohit Sharma, a century away from joining Sachin and Kohli’s elite list Rohit Sharma has not yet scored a single century in Test cricket on South Africa’s land. If Rohit Sharma scores a century against this team on this tour, he will become the third batsman to score a century in Test cricket as an Indian captain here.
The players who have scored a century as an Indian captain in the Test series in South Africa include Sachin Tendulkar and Virat Kohli. In South Africa, Sachin and Virat had scored one century each in Tests, and Sachin scored 169 and 153 runs.
Indian captain who scored Test century as captain in South Africa
169 run – Sachin Tendulkar
153 runs -Virat Kohli
Rohit Sharma’s performances against South Africa
Talking about Rohit Sharma’s performance in Test cricket against South Africa, he has played 9 matches so far against this team. In the 16 Test innings of these matches, Rohit Sharma has scored 678 runs against Proteas at an average of 42.37.
During this time, 3 centuries have come out of Rohit Sharma’s bat and he has the best score against this team 212 runs. Rohit Sharma has been dismissed twice in Test cricket against this team.