England’s opener scored a century vs Australia in the final, broke Rohit Sharma’s record.

Delhi: The Australian team is currently playing a five-match ODI series on the England tour, in which the fifth and deciding match of the series is being held in Bristol. Australia’s acting captain Steve Smith won the toss and decided to bowl first. For England, opening batsman Ben Duckett caught everyone’s attention by scoring a brilliant century. Duckett completed his second ODI century with the help of 13 fours and 1 six in 86 balls.

This brilliant inning of Duckett put him ahead of batsmen like Indian captain Rohit Sharma. Earlier, Duckett had missed a century by getting out for 95 runs in the first ODI and he had scored 63 runs in the fourth ODI.

During his century innings, Duckett scored 107 runs in 91 balls, hitting 13 fours and two sixes. With this, he has become the sixth batsman in the world to score 1000 runs in international cricket this year. He also left behind Joe Root’s figure of 986 runs and has now become the player with the highest run scorer for England in 2024.

The list of players who will score 1000 or more runs in international cricket in 2024 is as follows –

Kusal Mendis- 1290 runs in 39 innings
Kamindu Mendis- 1210 runs in 24 innings
Pathum Nissanka- 1165 runs in 28 innings
Yashasvi Jaiswal- 1099 runs in 21 innings
Ben Duckett- 1002 runs in 26 innings*
Rohit Sharma- 1001 runs in 27 innings.

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