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Rohit Sharma once played a historic innings against Sri Lanka back in 2014. Now, 11 years later, let’s have a recap about different aspects of the unforgettable outing.

Legendary Indian player Rohit Sharma registered a great knock against Sri Lanka as he played a record-breaking innings on November 13 2014, at Eden Gardens in Kolkata.

Rohit Sharma’s historic innings:

Speaking about the legendary innings, Rohit Sharma scored 264 runs in 173 balls in an ODI match against Sri Lanka. In the unforgettable knock, Rohit smashed 33 fours and 9 sixes.

Indian head coach’s shocking verdicts to Rohit Sharma:

However, Indian coach (at that time) Duncan Fletcher was disappointed by Rohit Sharma and shared his expectations of a higher score. “You could have scored 300, you played slow in the beginning.” he said.

Rohit Sharma’s highest partnership in that match:

During the match, Rohit Sharma had the highest partnership with batting maestro Virat Kohli. Rohit and Kohli went on to play 155 balls in rotation, and added 202 runs on the board together.

Star bowling performance from India:

After the heroic inning of Rohit Sharma. The Indian team had added 404 runs on the board after losing 5 wickets. Dhawal Kulkarni was the star player for the team as he took 4 important dismissals of Lahiru Thirimanne, Thisara Perara, Seekkuge Prasanna, Nuwan Kulasekara and bowled out at 251 runs.

Rohit Sharma’s unique record:

During the match, Rohit Sharma broke the record of most runs in boundaries as he scored 186 runs in an innings in an ODI and broke Shane Watson’s record of 150.

Rohit’s performance in recent ODI matches:

Rohit Sharma is now playing only ODI format as he announced his retirement from T20I after the men in blue won the 2024 T2o World Cup final. He also hung his boots from the Test format before the 2025 England tour. However, in the recent series against Australia Rohit scored 121 runs off 125 balls and smashed 13 fours and 3 massive sixes. Team India won the match by 9 wickets.