XtraTime Web Desk: India’s star opener Rohit Sharma created history today as he became the first cricketer to score 5 hundreds in a single edition of World Cup when he hit his 5th of World Cup 2019 in India’s crunch encounter against Sri Lanka in Leeds on Saturday. He matched legendary Sri Lanka wicketkeeper batsman Kumar Sangakkara who had hit four centuries in 2015 World Cup.
Earlier on Tuesday he matched former Sri Lanka skipper Kumar Sangakkara’s record of four centuries in one World Cup when he smashed his fourth ton against Bangladesh. Kumar Sangakkara had hit four centuries in 2015 World Cup.
Rohit Sharma is now joint highest century getter with legendary Sachin Tendulkar. Both of them now have six hundreds in World Cup competition.
Rohit Sharma is playing only his second World Cup. In his earlier matches Rohit mostly got dropped during the batting and went on to score a hundred. In their last match against Bangladesh Rohit was dropped on 9 by Tamim Iqbal and he made them pay. In fact, he was dropped on 1 against South Africa and he went on to score 122 not out in a successful chase for India.
Against Australia, Rohit was dropped on 2 and he scored a fluent 57. In a steep chase against England, Joe Root dropped Rohit Sharma on 4 and he finished with 102.