Rohit Sharma Breaks 37-Year-Old Record, Becomes Oldest Indian To...

Rohit Sharma scored a brilliant half-century for India in the third ODI against Afghanistan on Saturday (June 20) and helped the Men in Blue register a nine-wicket win. Thanks to Rohit’s 79-run knock off 69 balls and Yashasvi Jaiswal’s unbeaten 110 off 86 balls, India chased down the 219-run target in 28.4 overs, losing only one wicket.

Rohit, who is India’s third-highest run-scorer in ODIs, needed just 47 balls to complete his fifty at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai on Saturday. The half-century against the Hashmatullah Shahidi-led side helped Rohit break Mohinder Amarnath’s 37-year-old record and become the oldest Indian batter to score a fifty in an ODI.

Amarnath was 39 years and 21 days old when he scored 88 runs off 80 balls for India

against Pakistan in Sharjah on October 15, 1989. In comparison, Rohit was 39 years and 51 days old on June 20, 2026.

Oldest Indians to score 50-plus runs in an ODI match 

PLAYER	AGE	RUNS	BALLS	4/6s	AGAINST	VENUE	DATE
Rohit Sharma	39 years, 51 days	79	69	9/3	Afghanistan	Chennai	June 20, 2026
Mohinder Amarnath	39 years, 21 days	88	80	7/2	Pakistan	Sharjah	October 15, 1989
Sachin Tendulkar	38 years, 329 days	52	48	5/1	Pakistan	Mirpur	March 18, 2012
Sachin Tendulkar	38 years, 327 days	114	147	12/1	Bangladesh	Mirpur	March 16, 2012
Rahul Dravid	38 years, 248 days	69	79	4/0	England	Cardiff	September 16, 2011

The record for being the oldest player to score a fifty in an ODI belongs to United Arab Emirates batter Khurram Khan. Khurram was 43 years and 164 days old when he played an unbeaten knock of 85 runs off 80 balls against Afghanistan in Dubai on December 2, 2014.

He is also the oldest player in the world to score a century in an ODI. Khurram was 43 years and 162 days old when he made 132 against Afghanistan in Dubai on November 30, 2014.

Oldest players to score 50 or more runs in ODI match

PLAYER	COUNTRY	AGE	RUNS	BALLS	4/6s	AGAINST	VENUE	DATE
Khurram Khan	UAE	43 years, 164 days	85*	80	9/0	Afghanistan	Dubai (ICCA)	December 2, 2014
Khurram Khan	UAE	43 years, 162 days	132*	138	17/1	Afghanistan	Dubai (ICCA)	November 30, 2014
Khurram Khan	UAE	43 years, 160 days	52	70	5/0	Afghanistan	Dubai (ICCA)	November 28, 2014
Flavian Aponso	Netherlands	43 years, 121 days	58	105	3/1	Pakistan	Lahore	February 26, 1996
Mohammad Nadeem	Oman	42 years, 257 days	76*	77	7/2	Canada	Lauderhill	May 19, 2025

Among cricketers from Test-playing nations, Afghanistan’s Mohammad Nabi is the oldest player to score a fifty in an ODI. The veteran Afghan cricketer was 40 years and 286 days old when he smashed 62 runs off just 37 balls against Bangladesh in Abu Dhabi on October 14, 2025.