Indian star batsman Rohit Sharma delivered a sensational record-breaking batting performance smashed a career-best 209 runs off 158 balls featuring 12 fours and 16 sixes with a strike rate of 132.27, his remarkable innings helped India post a record total of 383 against Australia during the seventh One-day international match at Bengaluru.
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| Rohit Sharma celebrates his first double-hundred © BCCI |
Catch the Cricket highlights of the Rohit Sharma's record-breaking 209 against Australia, played on November 02, 2013, at the M.Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru. This match was part of Australia's tour of India, a 7-match One-day international series.
* Rohit Sharma’s innings of 209 is the second-highest individual score in One-Day International (ODI) cricket, following Virender Sehwag’s 219, and ranks as the second-highest-score by an Indian batsman in ODIs,
* Rohit's 209 is the highest score by any player against Australia in ODIs, surpassing the previous best of 175, jointly held by Herschelle Gibbs and Sachin Tendulkar.
* Rohit Sharma became the third batsman in ODI history to score a double century, joining the elite company of Sachin Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag.
* With 16 sixes, Rohit Sharma set the record for the most sixes hit in a single ODI innings, breaking Shane Watson’s previous record of 15 sixes against Bangladesh in Dhaka in 2011.
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