Team India captain Rohit Sharma is looking in great form on the Sri Lanka tour. He scored a half-century in the second consecutive match. The special thing is that Rohit scored both these half-centuries during the powerplay. The second half-century of this series was very special for the Indian captain. He made not one or two but many records during this innings. At the same time, the Sri Lankan team had to work hard to get him out.

Rohit Sharma's record breaking innings

Rohit Sharma scored 64 runs in 44 balls in this innings. During this, he hit 5 fours and 4 sixes at a strike rate of 145.45. Let us tell you, this was Rohit Sharma's 121st 50+ score as an opener. With this, he has surpassed Sachin Tendulkar in terms of scoring 50+ runs the most number of times as an opener for India. Sachin Tendulkar had scored 50+ runs 120 times as an opener. Apart from this, Rohit Sharma left Rahul Dravid behind in terms of scoring the most runs in ODIs. Rohit has 10831 runs in ODIs. He is now the fourth highest run-scorer in ODIs for India.

This was Rohit Sharma's fourth ODI half-century in the powerplay. He became the second Indian batsman to do so. Earlier, Virender Sehwag had achieved this feat 7 times, which is the joint highest number of times in the history of ODI cricket. Rohit Sharma has also hit 57 sixes in ODIs against Sri Lanka. He is only the second batsman to hit so many sixes against Sri Lanka. Shahid Afridi is at the top with 63 sixes.

Rohit Sharma was out due to a brilliant catch by Pathum Nissanka

In this match, Rohit Sharma's wicket was taken by Jeffrey Vandersay. But Pathum Nissanka played an important role in this wicket. He took a wonderful catch to send Rohit back to the pavilion. Rohit tried to reverse sweep Jeffrey Vandersay's ball. He wanted to hit the ball over point. But the bouncing ball took the edge of the bat. After this, Nissanka took a wonderful catch while covering the field.