ROHIT SHARMS ‘S 264 HIGHEST EVER ODI

SCORE IN INTERNATIONAL CRICKET

- ROHAN THAPE

                  Eden garden Kolkata where a batting star was born on 14^th 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