5 batsmen who scored most runs in a single bilateral ODI series

#3. Rohit Sharma (6 matches, 491 runs, avg 122.75, sr 108.62)

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The other batsman to feature from the 2013 India-Australia series, Rohit Sharma, finished a notch higher than George Bailey, scoring 13 runs more than him. The highlight of his entire series was the first ever ODI double-century for the batsman, which he scored in the last game of the series, and without which he would have scored just 282 runs in the series (which is not too bad, by the way).

Rohit Sharma started off with a 47-ball-42, as India lost the first game. He came back to score a memorable 123-ball-141 including 17 fours and 4 sixes as he led the team to the shores of victory in the second game, leveling the series and becoming the best player of the game. He did not do much in the third game, scoring just 11 off 22 as Australia went ahead again.

In the fourth game, rain came beckoning as he was batting at 9 off 13, and the batch had to be abandoned. The fifth game was abandoned without a ball bowled, and in the sixth game, he came back, scoring 79 off 89 balls as Virat Kohli and Dhawan scored tons to take the tally to 2 - 2.

The seventh and final game proved to be an extraordinary affair as India came out to bat first and Rohit scored his first ever 200. Double hundreds were a novelty back then for the world and for Rohit himself, as this was only the third such instance so far after Sachin in 2010 and Sehwag in 2011. Rohit's 209 included 12 fours and 16 huge sixes, a record at that time. India's 383 runs were eventually defended, and thus they won the series 3 - 2. Nobody else contested for the man-of-the-match title, as he won it for the second time in the series.

Rohit's tally at the end read 491 runs from 6 games, averaging 122.75 and at a strike rate of 108.62. He smashed 45 fours and 23 sixes and was also selected man-of-the-tournament.