India Cricket Team skipper Rohit Sharma has essentially become Kasgiso Rabada’s bunny in Test cricket. Rohit has been dismissed a total of 7 times by the Proteas pacer in red ball cricket. Rabada has scalped Rohit on both the innings of this ongoing IND vs SA 1st Test.
Kagiso Rabada has breathed fire in this Test match. He scalped a fifer in the first innings to destroy India’s batting order. Coming to bowl in the second innings, he got Rohit Sharma for a duck and achieved a rare milestone of being the fifth SA bowler to claim 50 Test wickets vs India.
Rohit Sharma vs Kagiso Rabada in Tests
| Year | Runs | Balls | Outs | SR | Avg |
| 2015 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 27 | 52 | 3 | 51.9 | 9 |
| 2019 | 73 | 146 | 2 | 50 | 36.5 |
| 2023 | 4 | 20 | 2 | 20 | 2 |
| Total | 104 | 224 | 7 | 46.4 | 14.9 |
Rohit Sharma is a fearless batter. Known to have very little weaknesses, it is however Kagiso Rabada who has gotten the better of Rohit in 7 occasions. In general, Rohit has managed to score just 104 runs against Rabada in 8 years. Rohit’s worst spell came in 2018 when Rabada scalped the opener thrice.
Kagiso Rabada teased Rohit Sharma in the first four balls in the second innings by bowling 2 outsingers and 2 inswingers. Finally on the fifth ball of the over, he decided to pitch it a but fuller and an unplayable delivery nipped back into the batter and rattled the stumps.
