When he burst onto the scene in 2007, Rohit Sharma was touted as the next big thing in Indian cricket. However, in the first 4-5 years of his career, Rohit never managed to justify his talent and was always in and out of the side. MS Dhoni decided to send him out as an opener in the 2013 Champions Trophy, thus changing his fortunes as an ODI batsman and there has been no looking back ever since.
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The Hitman has smashed 27 ODI centuries in this decade and three of them have been double centuries. He is one of those batsmen who can make stroke-making look ridiculously easy and once he is past the 100 mark, there is no stopping this Mumbai batsman. He scored a historic 264 not out against Sri Lanka in 2014 which remains the highest individual score in ODI cricket so far.
He is at the peak of his powers at the moment and will look to continue his utter dominance in the 50 overs format. He is already a great in the 50-over format and could well go onto become one of the very best once he calls time on his career.
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Arya Sekhar Chakraborty
Arya is a cricket journalist with around 8 years of experience who writes informative listicles and is in charge of text commentary at Sportskeeda. He is a graduate in Journalism, Psychology, and English, and has previously worked for websites such as CricTracker, SportzWiki, Cricket Addictor, Cricfit, OneCricket, and Cricket Exchange. His vast experience has led him to know the pulse of his readers and he cross-checks information from a number of credible sources before writing a single word for their sake.
A former Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) U14 and U16 player, Arya's tryst with cricket began after watching Sachin Tendulkar in action during his childhood. He is an ardent fan of Mumbai Indians (MI) owing to Tendulkar's initial involvement and also bleeds blue for his national team. He is an admirer of Test cricket as he feels the red-ball format teaches one about every facet of life.
Arya, who feels ODIs should not be completely replaced with T20Is owing to the former's pacing and charm, would like to go back in time to 1998 and watch the Master Blaster in action. He has experience in interviewing a few Bengali cricketers such as Kazi Junaid Saifi, Shib Shankar Pal, Sayan Ghosh and Prayas Ray Barman. He has also translated a couple of Bengali cricket books, and made Indian Premier League (IPL) pre-match videos.
He likes to spend time with his family and binge on web series during his spare time.
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