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- Indian captain Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli has announced that the T20 World Cup final triumph against South Africa was his last in the format.
- Rohit becomes only the third Indian captain to have won a World Cup – across formats – after Kapil Dev (1983) and MS Dhoni (2007 and 2011).
- He has now become the first-ever captain to lead a team to 50 T20I games.
- The 50th triumph is being the World Cup final against South Africa.
- He has also scored five T20I hundreds, the most in the format alongside Australia’s Glenn Maxwell.
- Kohli played 125 T20I matches in his career, scoring 4188 runs at an average of 48.69 and a strike rate of 137.04.
- He is the second-highest scorer in the format.
- He also finishes his career at the top of the run scorers’ charts in T20 World Cups.
- He remains the only player to have been the highest run scorer in two different T20 World Cups.
- He was also named in the ICC Men's T20I Team of the Decade from 2011 to 2020.
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