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Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma are only two players in ODI history who have scored 5 or more centuries for consecutive 3 years. Virat Kohli scored 6 centuries each in 2017 and 2018 and 5 ODI centuries in 2019. On the other hand, Rohit Sharma is scored 6 centuries in 2017, 5 centuries in 2018 and 7 ODI centuries in 2019.
No other captain has achieved the feat of scoring double hundred in ODI. In the game vs West Indies in Dec’2011, Sehwag was leading the side in the absence of MS Dhoni.
Tendulkar’s World Cup journey spans over 40 matches, during which he amassed an impressive tally of over 2000 runs
Rohit Sharma, broke Sachin Tendulkar’s record and became second fastest batsman to reach 10000 runs in ODIs. Rohit Sharma achieved this feat in just 241 innings. He broke the record of Little Master Sachin Tendulkar, who reached the milestone in 259 innings. Only Virat Kohli has scored 10000 runs in lesser innings, who took only 205 innings to achieve 10000 runs mark.
Rohit Sharma is the first and only batsman in the world to score five hundreds in a single World Cup. In 2019 world cup, Rohit scores were, 122, 57, 0, 140, 1, 18, 102, 104, 103 and 1 in 10 innings.
Rohit Sharma has scored not one, not two but three double tons in ODI history. Rohit’s second double ton against the Sri Lankan team, at the Eden garden, Kolkata in 2014 is the biggest individual score of IDIs cricket (264).
Rohit Sharma whacked 13 sixes, in a Test against South Africa in 2019. He hit 6 sixes in the first innings and 7 in the second innings. Maximum by a player in a Test Match. He smashed centuries in both the innings of this test.
Rohit Sharma is the first batsman to score 4 centuries each in all three forms of international cricket, Tests, ODIs and T20 Internationals. No other Batsman has achived this milestone in the International Cricket.
In many of his “Only #HitMan records”, Rohit Sharma is the only Indian to score T20I Fifty in all SENA countries.
Few unique records for India vs Sri Lanka T20 matches