Yesterday we did an article about the Top 5 Best Performances of Rohit Sharma in ODI cricket and today is the time to focus on the format in which Rohit Sharma had not done as well but in the last 2 years he has stepped up and got big scores and so many that we can do this article and I know that he still has a few years of test cricket left in him and we will do another one when he finishes. He is also the current captain of the test team and he would want to leave a lasting legacy on this most sacred format as well.
Rohit Sharma has been playing test cricket since 2013 and he has been on and off the team but he has played 45 Test Matches till now. He has scored 3137 runs at a very good average of 46.13 and he has also made 8 hundreds and 1 test double hundred as well. And looking at that average it is clear that Rohit Sharma will finish with over 6000 test runs. So, let’s look at his Top 5 Best Performances.
177 vs West Indies (2013)
Rohit Sharma had the perfect start to his test career as in his first test match he made a big hundred in his very first test innings. He came to bat at number 6 and from the get go was on top of the West Indies bowling and never allowed to pick any more wickets. He faced a total of 302 balls and made 177 runs with 23 fours and 1 six meaning a total of 98 runs in boundaries. His strike rate was 58.80 and it was a statement from him that he was here to stay.
176 and 127 vs South Africa (2019)
This was simply an extraordinary batting performance by Rohit Sharma against a top quality side and this was the starting of his test revival. He made a total of 303 runs in this test match which is astonishing. In the first innings he made a brilliant 176 runs from 244 balls and in this brutal innings he hit 23 fours and 6 sixes meaning a total of 128 runs out of 176 in boundaries. His strike was a very good 72.13. And again in the second batting innings he made a century from only 149 balls and in this knock he hit 10 fours and 7 sixes meaning 82 runs in boundaries alone. He was striking at 85.23 and India won this match by 203 runs.
212 vs South Africa (2019)
The only double hundred In the career of Rohit Sharma in test cricket has to be on this list and it was in the same series vs South Africa. India were batting first and while opening the batting Rohit Sharma batted for 255 balls and scored 212 runs and in this innings he hit 28 Fours and 6 sixes meaning a total of 148 runs in boundaries and his strike rate was an incredible 83.14. He loved batting against South Africa and India won this match by an innings and 202 Runs.
127 vs England (2021)
His first overseas hundred came in the most difficult of batting pitches and I know that this would have been the most special hundred for Rohit Sharma so far in his test career. The match was evenly poised when Rohit Sharma in the second batting innings played the knock of his life when in 256 balls he made 127 runs while hitting 14 fours and 1 six in the innings. His strike rate was 49.61 and he hung in there and it was due to his heroics that India won this test match by 157 runs.
68* vs New Zealand (2016)
The fifth performance in this list is another away performance, it was not a hundred but it was as good as any. In the first innings coming lower down he made an useful 35 but his heat for this match was saved for the second innings. In the second innings he came at number 6 and just smashed the ball to all parts and he hit 8 fours and 3 sixes in this innings meaning a total of 50 runs in boundaries and he was striking at an impressive 73.12. And India won this test match by 197 runs.
