Amidst all the criticism and claims, Rohit scored a historic centuryImage Credit source: Getty Images
Rohit Sharma put a break on the news of retirement by scoring a tremendous century at Lord’s Cricket Ground. In the third match of the ODI series between India and England, Rohit scored a century in just 84 balls and gave a befitting reply to those who talked about being dropped from Team India. With this, he became the first Indian batsman to score an ODI century at Lord’s. There was a lot of speculation before this match about Rohit Sharma, who had failed miserably in the last two matches of the series, but the Hitman made a tremendous comeback by scoring a record century.
In this match played on Sunday 19th July at Lord’s, London. England The batsmen plundered a lot of runs and made a record score of 387 runs. This is the biggest ODI score ever on this ground. Now that the target was so big, Team India also needed to bat in the same way and the same thing was done by former captain Rohit Sharma, whose international career is at stake.
Rohit responded with a century at Lord’s
Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill gave a great start to Team India and added 147 runs for the first wicket. Captain Gill was out but Rohit’s bat kept going. Rohit, who had already given the signal of a big innings by scoring his half-century in 50 balls, changed gears after this. Then it was not even known when he reached close to his century. Then came the 31st over, in which Rohit scored a memorable century by hitting a four with a slog sweep on the fourth ball of Adil Rashid.
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He scored this historic century on just the 86th ball, which created many records. But the most special thing is that Rohit became the first batsman to score an ODI century on the historic ground of Lord’s. Earlier, the highest score was 92 runs, which was made by Sourav Ganguly in 2004. Not only this, before this innings, Rohit himself had scored only 22 runs in 2 innings at Lord’s. But this time he also completed this task.
Claims of being dropped from Team India
This century of Rohit was also special because in the second ODI in Cardiff he could score only 26 runs in 47 balls. Only after this, it was claimed in a media report that the Lord’s match could be the last of Rohit’s career. It was told in the report that the selection committee had told Rohit that after this series he will not be selected in Team India. Now with this century, Rohit has given his answer to all these claims and intentions.
