Saturday, November 2, 2013

Sharma smashes double ton as India sink Australia


New Delhi: India's 26-year-old batting star, Rohit Sharma, turned into the third batsman to score a twofold hundred in Odis, after countrymen Virender Sehwag (219* vs Wi) and Sachin Tendulkar
(200* vs Sa), as his side scored up a mammoth 383/6 against Australia in the arrangement choosing seventh Odi in Bangalore. Sharma's 209 incorporated a whopping 16 sixes, another record in Odis, and 12 fours and happened to a negligible 158 balls and left Australia needing to finish the second most noteworthy fruitful Odi run pursue ever to win the arrangement, a target they missed the point of by 57 runs in spite of a valiant counter-striking hundred by James Faulkner. "Getting a 200 in the Odi organization is a heavenly feeling," said Sharma. "We knew its little ground and runs are not difficult to secure, so we needed to stay in and capitalise. "I was baffled not getting a hundred in the last amusement, so I needed to play enormous and keep the momentum going.

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