India captain Rohit Sharma, on Tuesday, smashed a stunning century to help his side thrash Windies by 71 runs in the second T20I in Lucknow.
Rohit led the side from the front, scoring 111 off just 61 balls as India posted a mammoth 195 for 2 in the allotted 20 overs. He reached his fifty in the 13th over before Fabian Allen ended his 123-run stand with Shikhar Dhawan by dismissing the latter. His knock was studded with 8 fours and 7 sixes as he powered India to finish 195/2 from 20 overs.
In reply, Windies kept on losing wickets at regular intervals. They were five down for just 68 runs on the board. The visitors rarely looked in contention and were eventually restricted to 124 for 9.
With the win, India took an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match series.
Meanwhile, Rohit achieved several personal milestones in the game after his scintillating ton. The century was Rohit’s fourth in T20Is which made him the first player to score 4 centuries in this format of the game. New Zealand’s Colin Munro (three hundreds) is the only other batsman to have scored more than two centuries.
Rohit is now the second-highest run-scorer with 2203 runs, in T20Is behind New Zealand’s Martin Guptill. He overtook New Zealand’s Brendon McCullum and Pakistan’s Shoaib Malik. Rohit also went past Virat Kohli to become India’s leading run-scorer in T20Is.
The Mumbai star, who hit 7 sixes during his knock, now has 69 international sixes in 2018. It is the most by any player in a calendar year, breaking his own record of 65 he set last year. He is also India’s most prolific six hitter in the T20Is. Rohit also went past New Zealand great Brendon McCullum on the list of most T20I sixes. Rohit now has 96 sixes as compared to McCullum’s 91 sixes.