ROHIT SHARMS ‘S 264 HIGHEST EVER ODI
SCORE IN INTERNATIONAL CRICKET
- ROHAN THAPE
Eden garden Kolkata where a batting
star was born on 14th November 2013 . That batting star was none
other than India’s batting sensation ROHIT SHARMA . He is India’s one of the
most promising opening batsman in one day international format.
Rohit sharma was out of international
circuit
For almost a
month due to injury . India‘s match againt
Sri lanka
was a comeback match for him . He not only
Broke the
highest record of individual score in ODI format but also joint the enlightened
list of 200club
Which has
names of legends like Sachin Tendulkar and virendre sewag . He also equaled Australia’s
Shane watson’s record of highest number of sixes in an inning he hit total 9
sixes and 33 fours which iss also a record Rohit sharma made 264 in 173 balls . He opened
the inning with ajinkya rahane and gave sri lanka a total 404. Rohit sharma had
played against Sri lanka in practise
match in Mumbai in which he made 141 but that was just a beginning of a mega
show . During the inning of 264 he was dropped many times as many as 2 to 3 times . He was dropped at 4
runs of 16 balls by Thiesara perera which cost them a wooping 260 runs .
There were many incredible
shots, from among his 33 fours and nine sixes, but the most gobsmacking was the
six off Kulasekara at the end of the 48th over, when he walked across to off
stump, took a half volley from about a foot and half away from him and flicked
it high over the midwicket boundary. It was the kind of shot, and innings, that
seemed in open defiance of physics. Rohit's innings was so ludicrous that the first 100 runs,
which were hit at a run-a-ball, seems very slow 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 Kulasekara's 30th over. Soon after that,
the ball would be off the middle of his
bat with almost every stroke he offered.Rohit sharma was out on last ball of
the inning caught byJayawardene balled by Kulasekara. Sri lanka only managed 251 with
highest score of 75 by Mathews n Kulkarni took 4-34
