In the 268 times that he has batted in ODIs, Rohit Sharma has faced 100 or more balls only 32 times. It’s a remarkable statistic for someone with 11,370 runs, 33 tons, and 59 fifties. What is more surprising is that since he assumed the white-ball captaincy of India full-time in 2022, Rohit has batted 100-plus balls only twice. Once in Lucknow in the 2023 World Cup against England and on Saturday versus Australia at Sydney. During his battling 73 at Adelaide, where his first 25 runs came at less than a strike rate of 50, he faced 97 balls. The Rohit Sharma we have witnessed in Australia seems to be a mirror image of the Rohit Sharma we saw from 2013 to 2020, and especially during the 2019 World Cup in England, where he was watchful early on in the seamer friendly conditions

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