ICC Comes Up With A Hilarious Tweet After Watching Rohit Sharma’s Outstanding Innings
Indian skipper Rohit Sharma lost the toss and was asked to bat first in the second T20I against Sri Lankan in Indore. He walked out to take guard and hit the visitors like a six-machine. His intention was crystal clear, shatter and demolish the opposition. Though Rohit took a couple of deliveries to access the condition of the pitch.
From the third ball that he slashed for a boundary through the backward point region, it was a carnage. Another boundary on the fifth ball and it was a flying start already. Rohit was simply toying with the bowlers. Not the kind of game he usually displays as he likes to take his time and then go for the kill.
Today, the HITman was on the hunt upfront and soon we could sense a record was in line to be overhauled. He was unstoppable as the Lankan bowlers came one after the other, they all tried to stop but in vain. He batted like a man possessed and the ball was just flying off his bat. Whichever the delivery he touched in the air landed deep in the stands. He left the fielders mere spectators.
In other words, Rohit hardly gave a chance to the fielders to move when he was hitting it on and off the grass. However, Rohit hit 12 fours and 10 sixes to score his second T20I century 118 off 35 balls which now equals him for the fastest hundred in T20I cricket with South Africa’s David Miller who took as many deliveries for his.
He went on hitting the ball after the hundred as well and it seemed like an unbelievable could happen, 200 in T20I. Eventually, on the 43rd ball, he was foxed on a slower delivery but not before scoring a magnificent 118 runs. His superlative ton in the match fetched him praises from all corners of the cricket fraternity.
Among all the good wishes that came his way, the one that stood out among the rest was by the big international body, the International Cricket Council (ICC). It is not an everyday story that one gets to see the ICC posting tweets on the individual knocks played the players. Well, they do tweet on historic wins and the big announcements.
But a tweet on a player only shows how brutal the innings must have been. The tweet that they posted is indeed hilarious. Here’s what ICC tweeted, “The joint fastest T20I century! 35 balls, 11 fours, 8 sixes, What an innings! Take a bow, Rohit Sharma! #INDvSL.”
Looking at @ImRo45‘s scorecard.
😮➡️ https://t.co/0bKvyteuvU #INDvSL pic.twitter.com/C6XnQ6ODfb
— ICC (@ICC) December 22, 2017
He has been appreciated by ICC along with Twitterati and our Twitter King Virender Sehwag. Sehwag feels that Rohit is making it look very easy but scoring like this is not easy at all. Sultan of Multan tweeted a pic of Rohit Sharma and wrote, “Rohit Sharma! Mazaak Bana Rakha hai yaar. It ain’t this easy yaar.”
RoHit Sharma ! Mazaak bana rakha hai yaar. It ain’t this easy yaar. pic.twitter.com/GqoGhz18wK
— Virender Sehwag (@virendersehwag) December 22, 2017
In the Indore match, Rohit added 165 runs for the first wicket with KL Rahul. While he managed to reach the ton, KL missed out on the opportunity as he was dismissed on 89.