Rohit Sharma extends his incredible form into T20Is with the joint-fastest hundred - off 35 balls. © BCCI
Match:
Ind vs SL, 2nd T20I, Sri Lanka tour of India, 2017
Date:
Friday, December 22, 2017
Toss:
Sri Lanka won the toss and opt to bowl
Time:
01:30 PM GMT
Venue:
Holkar Cricket Stadium, Indore
Umpires:
Anil Kumar Chaudhary , Nandan
Third Umpire:
Nitin Menon
Match Referee:
Jeff Crowe
India Squad:
Playing XI:
Sri Lanka Squad:
Playing XI:
Rohit Sharma extends his incredible form into T20Is with the joint-fastest hundred - off 35 balls. © BCCI
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Rahul misses hundred, India eye highest-ever total
Rahul continues to find new ways of missing hundreds, he's a disappointed man as he goes back for 89. Hardik Pandya and MS Dhoni follow soon after. Can India still go for the highest ever total in T20Is? Nine needed off the last three balls to equal 263 - the highest total..
Four sixes in seven balls for Rahul now
So, when he needed to play second fiddle or rather when didn't have the option or strike to do any damage, he kept his cool. And just as Rohit departed, Rahul came into his own by hitting Dananjaya, Chameera and Pradeep for sixes in what.. a space of seven balls. There's a hundred for the taking for the Karnataka man, he just has to collect it.. 10 deliveries remain in the innings!
Most sixes in an innings in T20Is (As of now):
21 India v Sri Lanka, Indore, 2017*
21 WI v Ind, Lauderhill, 2016
19 Neth v Ire, Sylhet, 2014
18 Aus v Eng, Southampton, 2013
Will it be a Dhoni show now?
Two boundaries early in the innings already. And now two sixes off Akila Dananjaya, these come too easy for the ever so powerful MS. He hit the straps in Cuttack, just about the perfect mood and platform to go for the jugular even today. He's already indicating it.. Don't forget Rahul at the other end, Sri Lanka would do well to not forget that it was Rahul who started the carnage this evening. He's just not got the strike but he would be breathing fire too!
Still a captain's game
Just as Rohit was walking back, the Indian coach Ravi Shastri got up from his chair and immediately gestured at the skipper so as to who should the next man be? Rohit bent down and pulled off a wicket-keeper's pose, and bang on! MS Dhoni walked in next.. A captain's game, isn't it?
Okay, so no double hundred for him!!
Well, that's how high he sets the expectations. Chameera had already gone for two sixes and a four in the over, before he bowled that bumper which Rohit could only guide to the short third fielder. End of a stupendous knock from the HitMan. 12 fours and 10 sixes, which amounts to 108 runs of his 118. Can you believe it? These are mind-boggling numbers.
Just a breakdown of numbers for you..
Rohit moved from 47 off 22 to 67 off 26, courtesy two sixes and two fours. Then he stormed onto 97 off 34, with four more sixes added to the list. So, that's 50 off 12 balls, which also happens to be the fastest fifty in T20Is - achieved by Yuvraj Singh.
Some numbers to digest..
First Indian batsman to score two 100s in:
Tests: Vijay Merchant (1946)
ODIs: Ravi Shastri (1984)
T20Is: Rohit Sharma (2017)
First Indian captain to score a 100 in:
Tests: Vijay Hazare (1951)
ODIs: Kapil Dev (1983)
T20Is: Rohit Sharma (2017)
Hundred for HitMan
And, Rohit Sharma gets there.. in style.. smashes a fiery drive through covers to get to his hundred, equaling David Miller's feat that came off the same number of deliveries - 35. Incredible batting this from the HitMan. The better half is in attendance and the anniversary celebrations aren't stopping. It was a Double Hundred to celebrate their partnership that evening in Mohali, today it's a hundred in T20Is.
Everything's gone into the second tier this evening, odd ones in the third tier too. He's sparing none, mind you, absolutely none. An example of contrasts btw, 35 balls for a hundred for Rohit, 33 balls for a 46 by Rahul at the other end!
Only if this isn't jinxing.. Rohit on 97 off 34 right now!
Fastest T20I 100s (balls):
35 D Miller v Ban, Potchefstroom, 2017
45 R Levi v NZ, Hamilton, 2012
46 KL Rahul v WI, Lauderhill, 2016
46 F du Plessis v WI, Joburg, 2015
Dananjaya, Chaturanga and now Gunaratne.. first-over violence against them!
So, the Lankans have employed their seventh bowler in only nine overs' time now, but does that help? Sorry, it doesn't! Gunaratne manages to bowl a couple of deliveries for singles till Rohit decided that the treatment got to be similar for one and all. Two massive sixes over mid-wicket followed by two fours right after. 21 off this over now, how much is Rohit on now? From 47 off 22 in the previous over to 67 off 26 by the end of this over, that's a supersonic travel!
Seven sixes already!
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