India's Rohit Sharma makes history with fifth World Cup century Saturday July 06,2019

 

Rohit Sharma became the first batsman to hit five hundreds in a single ICC Cricket World Cup as India cruised to a seven-wicket victory over Sri Lanka in their final group match at Headingley on Saturday July 06,2019

 

 
In his 16th World Cup match, Sharma reached three figures in 92 balls and equalled the record of six World Cup centuries overall held by legendary compatriot Sachin Tendulkar.

 

Rohit equalled Sachin's feat for the maximum hundreds at the World Cup, with his masterclass against Sri Lanka.While Tendulkar had featured in six editions of the tournament, playing 44 innings, Sharma achieved the feat in just his second World Cup and 16th innings 

He posted 103 before being caught by Angelo Mathews, who himself passed the century mark during Sri Lanka's innings.

Rohit Sharma's opening partner, KL Rahul, claimed his second one-day international century and his maiden World Cup ton - and the duo have now claimed century opening stands against Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

India comfortably chased down Sri Lanka's total of 264 for 7 and can now look forward to the semi-finals.

 

Rohit Sharma became just the second Indian batsman to score three hundreds in three consecutive ODI matches, as he breached the three figure mark against Sri Lanka at Leeds. Rohit joined his skipper Virat Kohli in this rare club, which comprises of nine other batsmen apart from the modern Indian greats.

Hitman, having scored two hundreds against South Africa and Pakistan early on in the tournament, brought up his third hundred against England at Birmingham. He followed it up with another scintillating century against Bangladesh at the same venue.

Though the venue for India's final league match changed, Rohit was undeterred as he brought up a hat-trick of hundreds as he smashed Kasun Rajitha for a boundary down the leg side. He also became the second batsman after Kumar Sangakkara to hit three consecutive World Cup hundreds.

In 2015, Kumar Sangakkara set the tournament ablaze with four consecutive hundreds.

Rohit Sharma has not only emulated the feat of Sangakkara but has gone a step ahead by scoring five hundreds in the tournament till now. Rohit started the tournament on a positive note, with a well-paced hundred against South Africa. He continued his rich vein of form and blew away Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka with his impeccable knocks. He also threatened to take the game away from England, with another hundred against them.The World's No.2 ranked batsman leads the batting charts with 647 runs in 8 innings

Rohit Sharma breaks plenty of records

 

6 - Hundreds scored by Rohit Sharma in World Cups - the joint most for a player in the history of the tournament alongside Sachin Tendulkar. While Tendulkar's six hundreds came in 44 innings, it took Rohit just 16 innings to get to the record.

Player	100s	Mat	Inngs	Runs	HS	Avg	SR	50s
Rohit Sharma	6	16	16	977	140	69.78	96.25	3
Sachin Tendulkar	6	45	44	2278	152	56.95	88.98	15
Ricky Ponting	5	46	42	1743	140*	45.86	79.95	6
Kumar Sangakkara	5	37	35	1532	124	56.74	86.55	7
AB de Villiers	4	23	22	1207	162*	63.52	117.29	6
Tillakaratne Dilshan	4	27	25	1112	161*	52.95	92.97	4
Sourav Ganguly	4	21	21	1006	183	55.88	77.50	3
Mahela Jayawardene	4	40	34	1100	115*	35.48	85.93	5
Mark Waugh	4	22	22	1004	130	52.84	83.73	4

5 - Hundreds scored by Rohit Sharma in the ongoing World Cup - the most ever for a player in an ODI series or tournament. He went past four centuries hit by Sri Lanka's Kumar Sangakkara in the 2015 edition of the World Cup. Across formats in international cricket, the only other player to register five three-figure scores in a single rubber is West Indies' Clyde Walcott, who smashed five centuries against Australia at home in 1955.

2 - Rohit Sharma became the second Indian player to score hundreds in three consecutive innings in ODIs after Virat Kohli, who managed to do so late last year. Rohit's last three scores read: 102, 104 and 103. He became the second player to score three successive World Cup hundreds after Sangakkara in 2015. 

647 - Runs scored by Rohit Sharma in the current World Cup - third-most by a player in a single edition of the World Cup. The ones to aggregate more are Sachin Tendulkar (673 runs in 2003) and Matthew Hayden (659 runs in 2007).

Most runs in an edition of World Cup

Player	Year	Mat	Runs	HS	Avg	SR	100
Sachin Tendulkar	2003	11	673	152	61.18	89.25	1
Matthew Hayden	2007	11	659	158	73.22	101.07	3
Rohit Sharma	2019	8	647	140	92.42	98.77	5
Shakib Al Hasan	2019	8	606	124*	86.57	96.03	2

* updated till India - Sri Lanka match

7 - ODI hundreds scored by Rohit Sharma in England - the joint most for a player in a country outside his home nation. He equalled seven centuries each by Sachin Tendulkar (in UAE), Saeed Anwar (in UAE) and AB de Villiers (in India) for the record. Only Marcus Trescothick and Joe Root (eight each) have scored more ODI centuries on English soil than Rohit.

4 - Man of the Match awards won by Rohit in this World Cup - the joint-most by any player in an edition of the World Cup. He equalled Aravinda de Silva (1996), Lance Klusener (1999) and Yuvraj Singh (2011) to win as many awards in the same season of the tournament.

Both openers scoring 100+ in a WC inngs
U Tharanga (133) & T Dilshan (144) v Zim Pallekele 2011
U Tharanga (102*) & T Dilshan (108*) v Eng Colombo 2011
Rohit Sharma (103) & KL Rahul (100*) v SL Leeds 2019

Highest opening p'ship for India in World Cups
183*R Sharma - KL Rahul v SL Leeds 2019 *
180 R Sharma - KL Rahul v Ban Edgabston 2019
174 R Sharma - S Dhawan v Ire Hamilton 2015
163 A Jadeja - S Tendulkar v Ken Cuttack 1996
153 S Tendulkar - V Sehwag v SL Joburg 2003

Most 100s in World Cups (100s/inngs)
6/16 ROHIT SHARMA
6/44 Sachin Tendulkar
5/42 Ricky Ponting
5/35 Kumar Sangakkara

Most hundreds in an ODI series/tournament
5 Rohit Sharma (WC 2019)
4 Kumar Sangakkara (WC 2015)