4 Times Rohit Sharma threw away the opportunity in Tests

#2 vs Australia First Test, Border-Gavaskar Trophy, Adelaide, Dec 9-13, 2014

The Mumbai batsman was generally successful in finding shots until then and was looking in great nick

Batting first, Australia had scored 517/7decl., and India were fighting hard to match the score. For a while, things were going good, and at one stage, India were 399/5.

Wridhimann Saha was betting on 25 runs along with Rohit who on 43 runs himself. The Mumbai batsman was generally successful in finding shots until then and was looking in great nick.

He suddenly tried to nudge a ball for a single by coming down the track and instead offered very little force at it and played it with an upward bat, thus softly patting it and sending it straight to the bowler Nathan Lyon's hand.

The entire innings crumbled at 444 runs, and later India lost the match by 48 runs.

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#3 vs Srilanka Third Test, India's tour of Sri Lanka, Colombo, August 28-September 1, 2015

Rohit was going strong before throwing away his wicket

India made 312 in their first innings and restricted the hosts to 201 in their first chance. Afterwards, India came in to bat again and made another 274 runs.

At some stage, Rohit Sharma was at 50 runs, after having completed a rare overseas fifty, and showing signs of going strong, when the inevitable happened again.

Just a ball before the lunch break, he tried to pull a short ball from Dhammika Prasad but timed the shot spectacularly late.

The ball got his bat's edge, took some airtime and eventually settled in Nuwan Pradeep's hands at long-leg, to end mark yet another innings who end was mainly caused by neither a bowler nor a fielder, but by Rohit Sharma himself.

India did go on to win the Test by 117 runs, after dismissing Sri Lanka for 268 in their final chance.