Top 10 Iconic Indian cricketers and their home states
After 92 years of India’s excellent journey in international cricket, avid Indian cricket team supporters must know from which part of India their distinguished cricketers originate.
1. Sachin Tendulkar, Sunil Gavaskar, and Rohit Sharma- Maharashtra
Maharashtra has never compromised in giving quality players to India. Vijay Hazare, who guided India to its first-ever Test triumph in 1952 against England in Madras (now Chennai), was born in Sangli, which comes under Maharashtra now. Similarly in the 1970s, Sunil Gavaskar emerged from the state and later became the first international cricketer to score more than 10000 runs in Tests.
After Gavaskar’s retirement in 1987, Mumbai’s Sachin Tendulkar broke into international cricket in 1989. He shattered several records with his bat and emerged as the biggest cricketing legend. In his 24-year Test career, he scored 15921 runs with 51 hundreds in 200 matches and ended up as the leading run-getter in the format. Similarly in ODIs, he is still the highest run-scorer with 18426 runs in 463 contests.
In the 21st century, Rohit Sharma became a huge star from Maharashtra for Team India. The Nagpur-born player is one of the six Indian players to amass more than 10000 runs in ODIs. He is the only batter who has hit three double-hundreds in ODIs. His massive score of 264 against Sri Lanka at Eden Gardens in 2014 makes him the highest individual scorer in an ODI match.
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