On this day: Rohit Sharma stamped his authority with 35-ball T20I hundred

Former India skipper Rohit Sharma being a behemoth successful limited-overs cricket is simply a well-established information successful the world. His ODI and T20I records are 2nd to none, and his penchant for large scores is unmatched.

Rohit is inactive the lone batter to smash 3 treble hundreds successful ODIs, and is the joint-most century-maker successful the shortest format of the game.Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. SUBSCRIBE NOW!Rohit’s mammoth innings successful T20Is are backed by his quality to deed sixes astatine will. He is the lone batter successful the satellite to smash much than 200 jaw-dropping sixes successful the format. He retired from T20Is aft starring India to the T20 World Cup rubric successful 2024, with 205 sixes successful 151 innings.

Rohit and his long-time teammate and chap run-machine Virat Kohli bid adieu to the format aft the T20 World Cup triumph past year, finishing disconnected their shortest-format careers with Rohit scoring 4231 runs from 159 matches, which included a grounds 5 hundreds and 32 fifties.On this time successful 2017, 8 years ago, Rohit stamped his dominance by smashing the past joint-fastest T20I period disconnected conscionable 35 balls, equalling South African David Miller's less-than-two-months-old record.

Rohit acceptable the grounds against Sri Lanka successful Indore, portion Miller had achieved the feat against Bangladesh astatine Potchefstroom connected October 29, 2017.

December 22, 2017 — The time Rohit Sharma sent Sri Lankans connected a leather hunt

Rohit Sharma had a mind-boggling white-ball bid against Sri Lanka astatine location that year. He smashed his 3rd ODI treble 100 against the visitors earlier the T20Is kicked off. His 208 not retired successful Mohali ensured helium finished the three-match ODI bid arsenic the apical run-getter.He started the T20I bid with 17 disconnected 13 balls successful Cuttack earlier coming to Indore.When Sri Lanka skipper Thisara Perera won the flip and enactment India successful to bat, small did helium cognize what was successful store.Captain Rohit Sharma and his opening spouse KL Rahul punished the visitors' bowlers ruthlessly from the start. India raced to 59 for nary nonaccomplishment aft the Powerplay and did not look back.Rohit reached his half-century disconnected 23 balls, with the assistance of 3 sixes and 7 fours, and brought up a 100-run opening concern successful conscionable 52 balls with Rahul.

After that, Rohit changed gears and near Sri Lankan players chasing leather similar ne'er before. The India skipper smoked 5 much sixes and 4 much boundaries successful the adjacent 12 balls to zoom to his grounds 100 successful conscionable 35 balls — joint-fastest successful the satellite astatine that time.With the feat, Rohit overtook his spouse Rahul's India grounds of a 46-ball hundred, acceptable against the West Indies astatine Lauderhill connected August 27, 2016.Rahul besides raced to his 50 disconnected 35 balls, hitting 3 sixes and 4 fours, arsenic the duo added 165 runs successful conscionable 12.4 overs.

Rohit was the archetypal to autumn successful the India innings aft a majestic 118 disconnected 43 balls, which included 10 sixes, 12 fours, and a mouth-watering onslaught complaint of 274.4.India went connected to station 260 for 5 successful their 20 overs, with Rahul contributing 89 disconnected 49 balls with the assistance of 8 sixes and 5 fours.Under the unit of chasing a mammoth 261, Sri Lanka mislaid the aboriginal wicket of opener Niroshan Dickwella (25) successful the 5th over. But a 109-run second-wicket basal betwixt Upul Tharanga (47 disconnected 29 balls) and Kusal Perera (77 disconnected 37 balls) kept Sri Lanka successful the chase.Then India’s rotation duo of Yuzvendra Chahal and Kuldeep Yadav worked their magic successful the mediate overs. Chahal started the illness with the caught-and-bowled dismissal of Tharanga successful the 14th over. Kuldeep past removed Perera and skipper Thisara Perera successful consecutive deliveries successful the adjacent over, earlier making it a three-wicket implicit by dismissing Asela Gunaratne arsenic well.From 145/1, Sri Lanka crumbled to 161/5 successful conscionable 10 balls, and determination was nary fightback aft that.Chahal finished with figures of 4 for 52, portion Kuldeep returned 3 for 52. Both were costly aft the archetypal onslaught from Sri Lankan batters, but they derailed the pursuit with speedy wickets successful the mediate overs arsenic the visitors were bundled retired for 172 successful 17.2 overs.

Rohit Sharma's storied T20I careerThe 35-ball 100 was Rohit’s 2nd T20I century, and helium followed that up with 3 much hundreds successful his career, including a career-best 121 not retired against Afghanistan successful Bengaluru (January 2024).

His different 2 T20I hundreds were 100 vs England successful Bristol (July 2018) and 111 vs West Indies successful Lucknow (November 2018).Rohit signed disconnected from the format with the past astir runs successful a vocation — 4231 runs from 159 T20Is astatine an mean of 32.05 and a onslaught complaint of 140.89. Meanwhile, Kohli ended his vocation with 4188 runs from 125 T20Is astatine an mean of 48.69 and a onslaught complaint of 137.04, which included 1 period and 38 fifties.Recently, successful 2025, Pakistan batter Babar Azam surpassed Rohit arsenic the starring run-scorer successful the format.