Rohit Sharma ODI record at Lord's: Tracking India star's stats at home of cricket ahead of rumoured farewell match
Rohit Sharma ODI record at Lord’s: Tracking India star’s stats at home of cricket ahead of rumoured farewell match originally appeared on Cricket News.
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KEY TAKEAWAYS:
- Rohit Sharma has scored just 15 runs in two ODIs at Lord’s, including a duck.
- Sunday’s third ODI could be his final international appearance amid retirement reports.
- His best Lord’s showing came in Tests, with 104 runs across the 2025 match.
Tracking India star’s stats at home of cricket ahead of rumoured farewell match
Rohit Sharma’s international future has become the defining subplot of India’s tour of England. According to reports, the BCCI’s senior selection committee has informed the 39-year-old that he is not part of their plans for the 2027 World Cup, raising the possibility that Sunday’s third ODI at Lord’s could be his final international match.
It would be a poignant venue at which to bow out. The Home of Cricket has hosted many of the game’s greatest moments, yet it is one of the few grounds where Rohit has never truly imposed himself across a distinguished career spanning three formats.
Having already retired from T20Is in 2024 and Tests in 2025, Rohit now plays only ODIs for India. With his form dipping and Yashasvi Jaiswal pressing hard for his place, the Lord’s fixture carries the weight of a possible farewell, making his record at the ground worth revisiting.
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Rohit Sharma’s ODI record at Lord’s
Rohit’s ODI numbers at Lord’s make for sobering reading. He has played just two one-day internationals at the venue, and they yielded a combined total of only 15 runs, with a duck in one innings and 15 in the other.
That return is wholly out of keeping with a batter who ranks more among the finest ODI openers the game has seen, and who averages nearly 65 in the format across England as a whole. Lord’s, for whatever reason, has simply never been a happy hunting ground for him.
His current series form offers little encouragement either. Rohit managed 11 from 21 balls in the first ODI at Edgbaston before a laboured 26 off 47 in Cardiff, scores that have only intensified the speculation surrounding his international future.
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Rohit Sharma’s overall international record at Lord’s
Across formats, Rohit has played five international matches at Lord’s, and his best work came in the longest format. In the sole Test he contested there, during the 2025 series, he compiled 104 runs across two innings with a top score of 83, striking two sixes and 13 fours.
His T20I outings at the ground came early in his career, both during the 2009 T20 World Cup. He was dismissed for five against West Indies and made nine against England, modest returns from a tournament that predated his emergence as a white-ball great.
Taken together, his Lord’s record spans a duck, a 15, a 104-run Test and two single-figure T20I scores. For all his standing in the game, the venue has never witnessed the Rohit who has plundered runs across the rest of the cricketing world.
His broader career, by contrast, tells the story of a modern giant. Rohit has amassed 20,263 international runs across 512 matches, including 11,731 in ODIs at an average of 48, with 33 hundreds and a record 363 sixes in the fifty-over format alone.
A farewell that deserves a final flourish
There is something quietly cruel about the prospect of Rohit signing off at the one major ground that has eluded him. A player of his pedigree deserves to leave on his own terms, yet circumstance may hand him a stage where he has never scored a half-century.
The counterargument is that Lord’s offers the perfect script for redemption. A batter who has conquered every other significant venue has one obvious piece of unfinished business, and few farewells in cricket would be sweeter than a maiden Lord’s fifty in a final appearance.
Whether Sunday truly marks the end remains unconfirmed by Rohit or the BCCI. But should it prove to be his last walk to the middle in India colours, a significant innings at the Home of Cricket would ensure his career closes not with a whimper, but with the flourish it has so often deserved.
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