The veteran Indian opener, Rohit Sharma played a scintillating knock of 264 runs in ODI cricket exactly seven years ago against a hapless bowling attack of Sri Lanka. The Eden Gardens crowd in Kolkata witnessed a rare spectacle of dominant and classy stroke play from the Indian opener as he floored the crowd and everyone presented with some majestic hitting.
In his knock of 264 runs, the opener hit 33 fours and nine sixes as India posted a mammoth total of 404 runs in 50 overs for the loss of five wickets. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) shared a post on Twitter celebrating the highest individual score in ODI cricket.
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Captioning the video on Twitter, BCCI’s wrote: “264 Runs, 173 Balls, 33 Fours, 09 Sixes, #OnThisDay in 2014, @ImRo45 set the stage on fire & registered the highest individual score in the ODIs. #TeamIndia.”
2⃣6⃣4⃣ Runs
1⃣7⃣3⃣ Balls
3⃣3⃣ Fours
9⃣ Sixes#OnThisDay in 2014, @ImRo45 set the stage on fire 🔥 🔥 & registered the highest individual score in the ODIs. 🔝 👏 #TeamIndiaLet's revisit that sensational knock 🎥 🔽
— BCCI (@BCCI) November 13, 2021
At the back of Rohit’s superb innings, India registered a huge win by 153 runs. The next best score for India in the match was recorded by Virat Kohli, who scored 66 runs off 64 balls. Before that, Rohit made his maiden double hundred against Australia in Bangalore when he had amassed 209 in just 158 balls.
This was Rohit’s second double century, having already scored one against Australia a year before. The swashbuckling opener went on to score his third double hundred in 2017 when he played another unbeaten knock of 208 against Sri Lanka.
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To date, Rohit Sharm is the only cricketer to have scored three double hundreds in ODI cricket. Martin Guptill, Fakhar Zaman, Virender Sehwag, Sachin Tendulkar and Chris Gayle are the only other international cricketers to have breached the 200-run mark in ODIs at least once. Rohit Sharma has also scored three-century in T20Is as well.
