TOP 5 T20I Innings by Indian Cricketers

#3 Rohit’s 118 off 42 vs Srilanka, Sri Lanka tour of India at Indore, Dec 22, 2017.

Even before this match, Srilanka had the reputation of being Rohit’s puppets with some of his best knocks coming against them and Rohit added some more value to that moniker through this knock.

The Lankans did the mistake of putting India into bat on a flat surface with small boundaries. Rohit wasted no time in starting the destruction with two boundaries off the 1st over and then he ripped Pradeep apart with 2 sixes and 1 four but the best was yet to come.

He was cautious against Dhananjaya in the previous over but this time he welcomed him with a brutal whip over midwicket. He then started simply standing in his crease and time all the balls with so much lazy elegance that he made batting look like a child’s play to a spectator. He got to his 50 off 23 balls with a slog over midwicket. In an attempt to stop Rohit from pulling, The Lankan skipper Perera decided to bowl a fuller length in the 11th over. But he just helped Rohit’s cause a bit more as the hitman made optimum use of the extra pace generated by him and dispatched him for 4 consecutive sixes by not even moving an inch from his crease.

He got to the joint-fastest T20 hundred in international cricket in just 11.2 overs and looked like he was on course to become the 1st double centurion in T20 cricket history. But he got out to a slow bouncer from Chameera. Nevertheless, this was an unforgettable display of power and timing from Rohit and will go down as one of the best ever T20 knocks.