India vice-captain Rohit Sharma is in striking distance of eclipsing his skipper Virat Kohli as the leading run getter in T20Is, when the third and final match of the T20 series gets underway against South Africa at Bengaluru later in the evening today.

Rohit is eight runs away from regaining his top spot in the list of most number of runs scored in T20 international cricket. Kohli overtook Rohit during the second T20 international when he scored an unbeaten 72 as India took a 1-0 lead in the series by registering a commanding seven-wicket victory in Mohali.

Kohli now has 2,441 runs from 66 innings to Rohit's 2,434 from 89 innings. Rohit will once again have the opportunity to get past Kohli when he comes out to bat with Shikhar Dhawan on Sunday evening.

Dhawan, meanwhile, has 6,996 runs in his bag in T20 cricket and needs just four to complete 7,000 runs in the shortest format of the game. The southpaw will then become only the fourth Indian following Kohli, Suresh Raina, and Rohit to reach the landmark in T20s.