Rohit Sharma became the third batsman after Sachin Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag to score a double hundred in ODIs. Sharma made 209, the second highest score in ODIs, 10 short of Sehwags 219. Tendulkar was the first to score a double against South Africa in Gwalior in 2010. # Rohits 209 is the highest individual ODI innings against Australia. The previous best of 175 was held by Tendulkar and Herschelle Gibbs. # Rohit broke Shane Watsons record of most sixes in an innings. The Australian had hit 15 in the course of his 185 against Bangladesh but Rohit bettered it by one to finish with 16 in the innings of 209 off 158 balls. # India (383/6) scored their highest total in an ODI against Australia and became the first team to score more than 350 three times in the course of the same series. # Rohit scored 1000 ODI runs in a calender year for the first time besides bringing up 3000 runs in his career. # The 36 sixes hit in the match is the most ever in an ODI. The previous highest was 31 # Rohits fourth ODI hundred was his second of the series. Before his unbeaten 141 against Australia in Jaipur on October 16, 2013, Rohit had last scored a century (101 not out) against Sri Lanka in Bulawayo on March 30, 2010. # Rohit became the fourth batsman after George Bailey, Misbah-ul-Haq and Virat Kohli to reach 1000 runs in 2013. # Before this series, no batsman had scored two centuries between India and Australia. Kohli and Rohit finished with two each. # Rohit and Shikhar Dhawan added 112 for the opening wicket, their third of the series and sixth this year, a record by an opening pair. # Rohit and Dhawan put on a 100- plus stand for the third time against Australia. That is the most by any opening pair # Rohit went past Tendulkars record of most runs by an Indian in a bilateral series. Rohit finished with 491 from six innings. Tendulkar had scored 374 against Sri Lanka in 2007 while MS Dhoni had 347 against Sri Lanka in 2005. # The Indian innings contained a total of 19 sixes. The highest before that was 18 (on four occasions) and India had done so twice # James Faulkner got to his maiden hundred off just 57 balls. It was the fastest ever by an Australian in ODIs. The previous was best by Hayden (66 balls) # Glen Maxwells 18-ball fifty equalled the fastest ever by an Australian along with Simon ODonnell. This was also the fastest by any batsman against India. # Vinay Kumar recorded the most expensive figures in an ODI by an Indian. He also became the first Indian bowler to concede over 100 runs in an ODI.
Posted on: Sat, 02 Nov 2013 16:57:06 +0000
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