#KGFChpater2#KGFverse
"Finally looonggg wait comes to and end"
"Jaa raha hu apni KGF dekhne"
"Samandar kitna gehra hai?
chalo utarkar maap hi lete hainโฆ."
@TheNameIsYash bossโค
Thank you to each one of you for showering such immense love on me and raising me as your own. โฅ๏ธ
With gratitude
Presenting you #AayaSher#TheParadise
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When two mad boys get on a mission. This is how it explodes.
@anirudhofficial@odela_srikanth ๐ฅ
Viv Richards. Sachin Tendulkar. AB de Villiers. Virat Kohli. Rohit Sharma. The absolute cream of ODI batting royalty.
Among them, Rohit continues to reinvent his batting. He now has 349 ODI sixes, 2 short Afridiโs all time record of 351. But what makes Rohitโs six hitting legacy generational is not just volume, but efficiency. He hits 1.3 sixes per/innings, the best ratio in ODI history among players with 100+ sixes. Better than Gayle, Afridi, AB, Dhoni, Buttler, Maxwell, Pollard. Rohit stands above all of them. His greatness is that he makes six hitting artistic. Imperious pulls & hooks, silken lofted cover drives, lazy elegance turning into brutal power, dancing down to spinners over long off & long on. Run making with him is cinema. Fluid in attack & solid in defence. Floats like a butterfly (paaka azhaga irukum) & stings like a bee (aana opponent gaali).
With his 73, 121* & POTS vs Aus, Ro's added yet another feather to his cap. Just look at his monstrous ODI feats.
- Most ODI hundreds vs Aus: 9 in just 49 inn
- Most ODI hundreds in Aus by an Indian: 6
- Best average by an Indian in Aussie soil: 57
- Most hundreds in ODI World Cups: 7
- Highest Individual ODI Score: 264
- Most ODI Double tons: 3 (no one else even has two)
It's the ginormous stats coupled with regal batsmanship that makes him a class apart. Ydayโs ton was only the 2nd time in 5 years he batted 100+ balls in an ODI. In that reign when he was Ind captain, he reengineered his game, batting with high intent from ball 1, foregoing his natural game. That he did it for the team is great, but I'm more in awe of his ability to do that, which makes him a modern day batting genius.
In ODIs: 11370 runs at 49.22, SR 92.66, 33 100s. Phenomenal. It gets even more insane if you filter out his stats since his time as an opener from CT 2013: 9305 runs at 56.73, SR 96.62, 31 100s. GOAT territory.
To put things in perspective, in the same period, in his absolute apex predator era, the T-Rex of ODIs, Virat Kohli, has 10201 runs at 61.82 with 38 100s. +5 in average due to the chasemeister's superior ability to finish chases & remain not out, but Rohit matches him blow for blow in volume of runs & strike rate & actually surpasses him in six hitting dominance & daddy hundreds. In an age defined by Kohli, Rohit has often matched him, even outdone him in the last decade. That's his greatness.
And boy, where has all the belly fat gone? He's looking leaner, meaner & stronger than weโve seen him in years. Iโll be invested in ODIs till Rohit's time, just to see how much further he can go. India needs him at the 2027 WC. There are ~20-25 ODIs left & I hope he signs off in glory at 40 with a WC win. That'd be a poetic end to an otherworldly ODI career of a legend.