Cric: Wi Vs Aus. Sl Vs Nz. Eng Vs Sa. Zim Vs Afg. Bbl. Ind Vs Aus. Wt2

January 15, 2016

2 Batsmen before Rohit Sharma with back-to-back ODI hundreds against Australia in Australia. Graeme Hick had done this with hundreds in Sydney and Adelaide in 1999. VVS Laxman had got hundreds in Brisbane and Sydney in 2004.

295 Runs scored by Rohit between dismissals in his last two innings - he had made an unbeaten 171 in the previous ODI - which is the second highest score by a batsman between dismissals in ODIs against Australia. Haynes had made 375 runs - scores of 102*, 104*, 123* and 46 in four consecutive innings - the highest such aggregate by a batsman.

January 15, 2016

He took 18 innings to score his first century as opener, but since then he has seven hundreds in 40 innings; in his last 20 innings he has scored five centuries, all in excess of 135, and has averaged almost 70 at a strike rate of 105.

Since the beginning of 2013, Rohit's strike rate of 254 in the last seven overs is the best among all batsmen who have scored at least 200 runs during this period of an ODI; next best is de Villiers with a strike rate of 236. They are the only batsmen with a scoring rate of more than 200 in the last seven overs. In the last ten overs, Rohit has a strike rate of 209, which is again the best, with de Villiers next at 201, and Martin Guptill third at 196.