New Delhi: Seven years ago on today, India’s opening Rohit Sharma turned on the Garden of Eden with a double century that broke the record in the ODI match against Sri Lanka.
The opening dough destroyed 264 running in Kolkata which remained the highest score by the dough in a limited overs format to date.
Rohit, known as ‘Hitman’, registered the highest individual score in Odis when he surpassed his compatriand Virender Sehwag’s 219.
Skipper Indian Mumbai took 173 balls to reach 264 runs, beats to add 33 and nine six.
Rohit is the only mixture to print three double tons in Odi Cricket.
India continues to score 404/5 in 50 overs and then limit Sri Lanka to 251 to reach fourth odi.
Sachin Tendulkar was the first dough to register a double century in a 50-over format as he achieved achievements against South Africa in 2010.
Earlier this week, Rohit was named the T20i captain of India and he would now lead after Virat Kohli went down as captains in the shortest format.
Kohli has a T20 World Cup as his last task as captain in a short format from the game.
Kl Rahul was named after the captain’s deputy.
Ruturaj Gaikwad, Harshal Patel, Venkatesh Iyer, Avesh Khan, Axar Patel has also been named in the squad for the Series against New Zealand.
New Zealand will play the T20i series and then follow up with two test matches.
T20i will be played on November 17 in Jaipur, November 19 in Ranchi and November 21 in Kolkata.
Both tests will be played in Kanpur (November 25-29) and Mumbai (December 3-7).