Despite the fact that India’s stand-in-skipper Rohit Sharma recently became the second Indian ever to score 1,500 runs in the T20Is, but in 2017, his batting record suggests that he hasn’t been anywhere close to his best in the T20Is.

India and Sri Lanka will be locking horns for the second T20I and the hosts will be looking to take an unassailable lead in the series in Indore, and this match will surely give Rohit with an opportunity to improve his personal batting record as well.

So far, Sharma has been gone through a lean patch in T20I is concerned as he has managed to score just 138 runs in 7 innings. He hasn’t crossed the 20-run mark in T20Is this year in six out of seven innings. The 17-run inning against Sri Lanka in the first T20I was his 2nd highest score this year.

However, Rohit needs to a hard-work in order to improve his poor stats in the second T20I as, amongst all the T20-playing nations, the opener’s average stands to be the worst against the Sri Lankans.

Despite scoring his highest T20I score here (106 v SA), he has passed 20 just twice in his past twelve T20I innings – 43 vs Sri Lanka in Ranchi (2016) and 80 vs New Zealand in Delhi (2017). To make the things worse, Rohit has been ridden in single digits four times in these twelve innings.