{"id":527160,"date":"2025-10-25T14:33:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T14:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/527160\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T14:33:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T14:33:13","slug":"australia-vs-india-rohit-sharma-virat-kohli-star-as-tourists-win-third-odi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/527160\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia vs India: Rohit Sharma &#038; Virat Kohli star as tourists win third ODI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Rohit Sharma scored his 50th international hundred as India thrashed Australia in the third one-day international to earn a consolation win.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An unbroken partnership of 168 between Rohit (121*) and Virat Kohli (74*) led India to their target of 237 with 69 balls to spare in Sydney. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kohli, who was dismissed without scoring in the first two games which India lost, passed Kumar Sangakkara to become the second-highest run scorer in the format.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 36-year-old now has 14,255 runs in ODIs, but has some way to go to pass Sachin Tendulkar&#8217;s record 18,426.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Australia won the toss and chose to bat, but were bowled out in the 47th over with seamer Harshit Rana taking 4-39.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Matt Renshaw top-scored with 56, his first ODI half-century having made his debut in this series, while the remainder of Australia&#8217;s top six made scores between 23 and 41 but failed to push on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Captain Shubman Gill was the one man to fall in India&#8217;s reply, caught behind off Josh Hazlewood for 24, before Kohli and Rohit comfortably guided the tourists to victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The two sides now meet in five T20 internationals, with the first in Canberra on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rohit Sharma scored his 50th international hundred as India thrashed Australia in the third one-day international to earn&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":527161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1406,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-527160","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115435300874583991","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}