20 July,2026 09:48 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli (Pic: X/@BCCI)
In the third ODI match against England, Team India suffered a loss by 27 runs at the Lord's Cricket Ground in the City of Westminster.
The match also marked Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli's 400th international match for the "Men in Blue". Speaking about achieving the milestone together, Rohit said that it is always fun batting alongside Kohli.
"We played our entire career together [referring to Virat Kohli], so it was nice to have him in the middle. You know, we've had a lot of partnerships. It's always fun batting together. We understand each other so much," he said in a video posted by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on its official social media handle.
The veteran opening batsman then said that constant communication and exchanging ideas in the middle have been key to their successful partnerships.
"And yeah, it's always nice in the middle, bouncing off ideas, trying to see what we can do. So there was a lot of conversation that was going around in between when we were batting," said Rohit.
During the match, the duo milked 113 runs against the "Three Lions". Facing 110 balls, Rohit smashed 138 runs, including 17 boundaries and five maximums. On the other hand, Kohli garnered 74 runs in 60 deliveries, laced with four boundaries and three maximums.
Despite delivering big knocks, the visitors managed to score 360 runs for the loss of seven wickets. With this, the hosts clinched the three-match ODI series by 2-1.
After concluding the series against England, the "Men in Blue" will lock horns with Zimbabwe for the three-match T20I series. The first match between Team India and Zimbabwe is scheduled to be played on July 23 at the Harare Sports Club.
India's squad for the T20I series against Zimbabwe: Shreyas Iyer (C), Ishan Kishan (WK), Rinku Singh, Shivam Dube, Abhishek Sharma, Yash Thakur, Prabhsimran Singh (WK), Tilak Varma, Ravi Bishnoi, Harsh Dubey, Suryansh Shedge, Mayank Yadav, Ashok Sharma, Prince Yadav, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi.
(With ANI Inputs)
