This day, that year: Rohit Sharma rewrites history with epic 264

Exactly five years ago on this day in 2014 Indias opening batsman Rohit Sharma proved to the world why he is a force to reckon with when he created history in ODIsRohit Sharma smashed an unbelievable 264 runs against Sri Lanka during their ODI match in Eden Gardens in Kolkata Rohit Sharma still holds the record for the highest ODI individual score after five yearsRohit Sharma was dropped early in the innings when he was on four runs but after that there was no looking back The Mumbai batsman tonked the Sri Lankan bowlers all over the park to get to the historic double century En route to his 264 Rohit Sharma smashed 33 boundaries and 9 sixesOnThisDay in 2014 Rohit Sharma went big The Indian opener smashed 264 the highest ever ODI score The worst part Sri Lanka dropped him when he was on 4 ICC went on to post on their Twitter handleOnThisDay in 2014 Rohit Sharma went bigThe Indian opener smashed 264 the highest ever ODI score u00f0u009fu00a4u00af The worst part Sri Lanka dropped him when he was on 4 u00f0u009fu00a4u00a6 pictwittercomE6wowdoGULmdash ICC ICC November 13 2019Netizens also took the opportunity to remember Rohits knock and they took to Twitter to say that there is no batsman like Hitman Heres a look at some of the tweetsTheres no one like HimHit man for a reason u00f0u009fu008fu008fu00f0u009fu0091u008cmdash u00d0u00bcupsilonu00d1u0095u00d0u00bdtaualphau00d5u00a3alphau00d0u00bdu00d0u00bcu00d1u0094part Mushhtaqq November 13 2019If You Drop Hitman Even Once He will Punish You Very Hardu00f0u009fu0098u00acu00f0u009fu0094u00a5What Knock It wasu00f0u009fu0092u00a5u00f0u009fu0098u0087u00f0u009fu0091u008cmdash u00f0u009fu0087u00aeu00f0u009fu0087u00b3 SHARMI u00f0u009fu0087u00aeu00f0u009fu0087u00b3 ImSharmi7 November 13 2019Rohit Sharma 264Sri Lanka all out at 251SL lost to Rohit by 13 runsmdash Cricket is My 1st Love Cricket_1stlove November 13 2019Most expensive drop in the history of the game is a certain Brian Lara was dropped on 18 in England he went on to score 501 Highest ever first class scoreBrianLara legendmdash Rahul Joshi rahulrjoshi November 13 2019If that catch had been taken he would have scored this ton on some other dayIt was in his fate and he scored itPlayers like Rohit arent bound of dropping catchesHe was on the verge of becoming a great player at that time and he proved it rightmdash Haris Ahmed u00f0u009fu0087u00b5u00f0u009fu0087u00b0 HarisAh99 November 13 2019Not only once he was dropped 6 times in that matchmdash Sai krishna Saikris95866919 November 13 2019The match were sachin fans turned into permanent rohit fans u00f0u009fu0098u008cmdash Pavan Taraktrade Pavantarak143 November 13 2019A double hundred by a batsman has been scored a total eight times in ODI cricket Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar was the first batsman to score a double century in ODIs when he did so against South Africa in 2010 He was followed by Virender Sehwag Rohit Sharma Chris Gayle Martin Guptill and Fakhar ZamanCatch up on all the latest sports news and updates here Also download the new midday Android and iOS apps to get latest updatesThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever