New Delhi: Number 13 may not prove to be lucky for anyone, but it is very special for India’s prolific opener and now limited-overs cricket captain Rohit Sharma. The 13th of the month of December is memorable for Rohit and his fans. On this day, Rohit had scored a double century for the third time in his career in the year 2017. The most important thing is that Rohit played this amazing inning as a captain.
The second ODI of the series was played against Sri Lanka in Mohali on 13 December 2017. Rohit Sharma was then handling the captaincy of the team. He came to the opening and returned to the pavilion unbeaten after scoring 208 runs. Rohit also made a historic record of hitting double centuries 3 times. He hit 13 fours and 12 sixes in his blistering innings of 153 balls.
The Sri Lankan team then came to India and Rohit Sharma was handling the captaincy of India. India made a huge score of 392 runs in that match, after which the visiting team led by Thisara Perera could only manage 251 runs for the loss of 8 wickets. India won the match by a huge margin of 141 runs. In his innings, Rohit hit 4 sixes in the same over of Suranga Lakmal.
Rohit also became the only player in ODI history to hit a double century three times. Earlier, he had also scored the highest score of 264 runs in ODI history on the 13th itself. Rohit played an innings of 264 runs against Sri Lanka in Kolkata on 13 November 2014. Rohit also scored a double century in the year 2013 and on 2 November 2013, he played an innings of 209 runs against Australia in Bangalore. Apart from Rohit, the legendary Sachin Tendulkar (200) and Virender Sehwag (219) have also scored double centuries for India.
