Kohli says no, Rohit walks: DRS moment steals spotlight

Former India skipper Rohit Sharma’s fluent half-century came to an abrupt extremity connected Sunday aft a little mid-pitch consultation with Virat Kohli led to the opener deciding against reviewing an LBW decision, a telephone that near fans buzzing crossed societal media during the archetypal ODI against South Africa.The infinitesimal unfolded successful the 22nd implicit of the Indian innings.

Marco Jansen went abbreviated of a length, the shot stayed little than expected and struck Rohit astir the backmost thigh arsenic helium swivelled into a propulsion shot. The Proteas went up immediately, the umpire raised the finger, and Rohit paused, turning to non-striker Kohli for a speedy word. After a fewer seconds of discussion, the 2 agreed determination was nary request for DRS. Rohit began the locomotion back, ending what had been a composed, commanding outing.

Replays aboriginal suggested the transportation would person clipped the apical of the stumps astatine worst, validating the determination to determination on.

Rohit departed for 57 disconnected 50 balls, hitting 5 fours and 3 sixes, and successful the process rewriting ODI history. Earlier successful his innings, the 38-year-old had sent 2 cleanable hits sailing implicit heavy midwicket disconnected spinner Prenelan Subrayen to gully level with Shahid Afridi’s tally of 351 sixes, the erstwhile grounds for astir successful One-Day Internationals.

Moments later, a towering propulsion disconnected Jansen implicit heavy quadrate limb carried him past the erstwhile Pakistan star.With 352 ODI sixes, Rohit is present the astir prolific six-hitter the format has ever seen, achieving the feat successful conscionable 270 innings, acold quicker than Afridi’s 398-match career. He besides brought up his 60th ODI half-century earlier his exit, extending a bequest built since his debut successful 2007.