Rohit Sharma has hit the form button with sensational performances in Test cricket. He scored a breathtaking 57 off 44 balls, with the help of 5 fours and 3 sixes in India’s second innings of the final Test against the West Indies.
He has now registered the world record for consecutive innings without a single-digit score in Test cricket. Sharma has 30 such scores, one more than the previous record holder Mahela Jayawardene.
Most consecutive innings without a single-digit score in Test cricket
30 – Rohit Sharma
29 – Mahela Jayawardene
25 – Len Hutton
25 – Rohan Kanhai
24 – AB de Villiers
The right-hand batter amassed 80 off 143 balls in the first innings. The visitors managed 438, with Virat Kohli hitting his 29th Test hundred. Yashasvi Jaiswal, Ravindra Jadeja and Ravichandran Ashwin slammed the fifties.
Mohammed Siraj took 5 wickets in the bowling department as the hosts were bowled out for 255.