5 Rohit Sharma records unlikely to be broken

The best limited overs opener and one of the top batsman in the world at the moment. Rohit Sharma the man who carried the Indian batting singlehandedly in the recently concluded World Cup 2019. It wouldn't be a mistake to admit that Rohit Sharma's career began in 2013. The IPL victory with the Mumbai Indians was a major turnaround that paved the way to reach greater heights in the future.

He was moved up the order and was given the opportunity to open the innings for India during the 2013 Champions Trophy. Since 2013 in ODIs, Rohit Sharma has scored 6708 runs in 132 games at an average of 50+ each year. The 25 hundreds during this period also include 3 double-tons which makes him the only player to reach this landmark.

Moving up the order was the best thing that could have ever happened to Rohit Sharma and that has changed the way he looks at the game now.

1. Three Double Centuries in ODI:

All in all, seven double tons have been scored in the limited-overs format and the Mumbai batsman nearly owns half of them in his name. The other four double hundreds have been scored by the likes of Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Martin Guptill and Chris Gayle.

209 vs Australia: A series decider However, that did not affect his morale as he teared up the Australian bowling, lighting up 12 fours and 16 sixes. That was enough to see the hosts down the Aussies by 57 runs. 

264 vs Sri Lanka: Making a comeback into the team after missing three months through injury, Rohit once again made the world aware of his precious talent. There were still doubts about his place in the 2015 ICC World Cup. Rohit Sharma went berserk with the record highest ever Individual score in ODI.

208 vs Sri Lanka: India having lost the first ODI of the series with a linear batting performance, Rohit had to respond. The second highest score by a captain in ODI's after Virender Sehwag’s 219 vs West Indies. Only the second captain in ODI to hit a double century. He also surpassed Virat Kohli’s record of the highest score (154 vs New Zealand) at the PCA Stadium in Mohali. 

2. Mount Everest feat Rohit Sharma 264:

November 13 marks an important date in world cricket as it was the day when Rohit Sharma stunned the world with his second double hundred in one-day internationals.

During the fourth ODI of the five-match series against Sri Lanka at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata, Rohit struck 264 off 173 balls. The knock was studded with 33 fours and nine sixes.

Rohit's innings was so ludicrous that the first 100 runs, which were hit at a run-a-ball, seems achingly humdrum in comparison to the 164 that followed. The surge had actually begun before he reached his century, when he plundered 14 runs in four balls, in Nuwan Kulasekara's 30th over. Soon after that, the ball would be leaping off the middle of his bat with almost every stroke he offered.

3. Record 5 Centuries in a Single World Cup: 

Rohit Sharma became the 1st player to hit 5 hundreds in single edition of the World Cup. Kumar Sangakkara held the record for most hundreds in a single World cup earlier with 4 hundreds in World Cup 2015. During India's final league match of the 2019 Cricket World Cup against Sri Lanka, Rohit created history when he scored his 27th hundred in one-day internationals.

Rohit also has 3 successive hundreds in this World Cup. He also joined Legendary Sachin Tendulkar with the most hundreds in World cup history with 6 hundreds. 

Rohit had a sensational outing in the World Cup with 647 runs in just 9 innings with 5 hundreds and a fifty.

4. Most International Sixes in a Calander year:

For the second consecutive year, the 32-year old batsman has hit the most number of international sixes in the year 2018. Rohit achieved the remarkable feat at India’s newest international venue in Lucknow. Playing his 36th international match of the year, he deposited the ball into the stands a whopping 69 times, which also happens to be the most number of sixes by an international cricketer ever in a calendar year.

In 2017, it was the same Rohit Sharma who had topped the charts for the most international sixes. Off 32 international games, he had slapped 65 sixes, bettering the mighty AB de Villiers’ record of 63 international sixes in 2015. The list also includes the likes of Chris Gayle, Shane Watson, Shahid Afridi and Brendon McCullum to name a few. Way back in 1998, it was India’s legend Sachin Tendulkar who held that record with as many as 51 international sixes.

The record of hitting 10 sixes in an international match for the most number of times is held by Sharma. He has done this three times.

Also he is the only batsman to hit four consecutive sixes twice in international matches.

5.Most fours in an ODI Inning:

33, Number of fours that Rohit hit during his innings record breaking innings of 264, a world record. The previous record was 25, by Sachin Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag during their respective ODI double hundreds. Rohit Sharma not only broke the record of the highest score in ODIs, he shattered the score by making an astonishing 264 runs in 173 balls. He hit 9 sixes and a world record 33 fours in his history making innings.

With Rohit Sharma at the peak of his powers and ample of cricketing years in the future, he will look to dominate most of the batting records possible. Perhaps he will end his career as one of the greatest batsman of this generation. His role will be crucial in the upcoming two World T20's, the World Test Championship and the World Cup 2023.