Statistics: Rohit Sharma climbs to third place in the list of ODI centurions in India, all-time

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Rohit Sharma in action against South Africa in Southampton Wednesday (Reuters photo)

Rohit Sharma scored her second cent in the World Cup and her 23rd overall position after reaching the three-digit mark against South Africa at the Rose Bowl in Southampton on Wednesday. India finally won the match by 6 wickets with fifteen balls to spare, Rohit scoring 122 unbeaten on 144 balls. Rohit started cautiously as the Proteas peacemakers made life difficult on a track that helped the seamstresses, but looked disturbing once he had opened his eyes.

Here are some of the records that he has won at the beginning of his century of victories:

# Rohit (23 centuries ODI) is now the third in the list of Indian centurions in ODI. Only Sachin Tendulkar (49 centuries ODI) and Virat Kohli (41 centuries ODI) precede it. Sourav Ganguly, now ranked fourth in this list, has 22 ODI centuries.

# Rohit took 128 balls to bring back his 100 balls today. It was the slowest of its 23 centuries.

Rohit's century was the 26th by an Indian in the World Cup and the 168th overall. India and Australia now count for 26 centuries of World Cup, the largest number of all countries.

# Rohit became the 9th Indian to cross 12,000 international heats. Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Virat Kohli, Sourav Ganguly, MS Dhoni, Virender Sehwag, Mohammad Azharuddin and Sunil Gavaskar are the only others on this elite list.

# Rohit Sharma's 122 * is the second individual Indian score in a World Cup race. The highest is Sachin Tendulkar, 127 *, against Kenya in 1996.

# Rohit Sharma is now fourth in the list of ODI centuries marked in pursuit races. His 122 * against South Africa was his 11th consecutive race. Virat Kohli (25 centuries), Sachin Tendulkar (17 centuries), Chris Gayle (12 centuries) and Tillakaratne Dilshan (11 centuries) are among the top five on this list.

# The victory over South Africa was ODI's 50th win as captain of Virat Kohli. It took 69 ODI to reach this mark, which is the fastest among the Asian captains. Only Clive Lloyd (ODI 63), Ricky Ponting (ODI 63) and Hansie Cronje (68 ODI) reached this benchmark in fewer games.

# This is the first time that South Africa has lost its first three World Cup matches.

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