‘Comeback karna koi inse seekhe!’ – Fans react as Rohit Sharma hits his fifth T20I hundred against Afghanistan

In the ongoing game between India and Afghanistan, India skipper Rohit Sharma has hit his fifth T20I hundred. In the first two games, he bagged ducks. Meanwhile, Sharma is playing his first T20I games after the T20 World Cup 2024 semifinal loss. Meanwhile, talking about the right-hander, his last T20I hundred came in India’s tour of England in 2018.

Since then, he was yet to score a hundred in the shortest format, having not scored a T20 hundred since the 2012 season. Meanwhile, in this game, for the first time in the series, the Men In Blue elected to bat first after winning the toss. With the bat, for the first time against the Afghans across all formats, they lost four wickets for 22 runs.

Fareed Ahmad, who played the first game of the series, took the wickets of Yashavi Jaiswal, Virat Kohli, and Sanju Samson. On the other hand, Azmatullah Omarzai removed Shivam Dube to create more trouble.

Rohit Sharma and Rinku Singh help India recover from 22/4 to 212/4

At 22/4, the likes of Singh and Sharma knew that they had one more recognized batter in the form of Washinton Sundar. Meanwhile, the left-handed, and right-handed combination played with caution but also put away the bad balls. After the end of 15 overs, the team was 109/4. In the last five overs, the team managed to get 103 more runs with 58 runs coming in the last couple of overs.

During this, Sharma got his fifth T20I hundred and the highest individual score in the shortest format with 121 not out off 69 balls including 11 fours and eight sixes. On the other hand, Singh hit an unbeaten 69 off 39 balls including two fours and six sixes. With the partnership of an unbeaten 190 runs, the team made a record of highest partnership for the fifth wicket, beating Virat Kohli and Hardik Pandya’s partnership in the T20 World Cup 2022 game against Pakistan.

This is how Twitter reacted

Those excel sheets and analysis could have never imagined how it went from 22-4 to 212-4🤣 pic.twitter.com/c0PPRTWnZz

— Shivani (@meme_ki_diwani) January 17, 2024

From 22-4 to 212-4 in 20 overs.
Crazy crazy recovery from Rohit Sharma and Rinku Singh. Goated partnership. pic.twitter.com/UqodIlQ4sM

— R A T N I S H (@LoyalSachinFan) January 17, 2024

From 22/4 to 212/4, what a redemption this has been, courtesy Rohit Sharma and Rinku Singh

— Shivani Shukla (@iShivani_Shukla) January 17, 2024

From 22/4 to 212/4, this Indian team has shown that they can do anything. Supporting Indian Cricket Team is a like an emotion fest. Expect anything and everything in a match.

What a brilliant brilliant partnership between Rinku and Rohit. ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥#INDvsAFG

— Ridhima Pathak (@PathakRidhima) January 17, 2024

36 runs in an over 🤤 from 22-4 to 212-4 power of rinku 🤴 rohit bhi theek theek hi khela waise

— 🐰 (@firki07) January 17, 2024

What a delight to watch fr fr! 🔥
Scenes from today’s match 😹#RohitSharma #RinkuSingh pic.twitter.com/esxomtcnCO

— Khagendra Shrivas (@Kay_deeeeee) January 17, 2024

This Is Heaven @ImRo45 😭😭💙#RohitSharma ! #INDvAFGpic.twitter.com/9kAvBFylwS

— 🕊️ (@Parisy_lily_) January 17, 2024

𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘬𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘢 𝘬𝘰𝘪 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘬𝘩𝘦! 😉

A record-shattering 5️⃣th T20I hundred for Rohit Sharma! 🤯#RohitSharma #INDvAFG pic.twitter.com/0UCTF5Gbnp

— Punjab Kings (@PunjabKingsIPL) January 17, 2024

#INDvAFG #RohitSharma #Rinkusingh
Rohit Sharma 🤝 Rinku Singh unbreakable partnership 💗✨ pic.twitter.com/A8pfczIvnc

— Valdimiputin ( Parody account) (@valdimiputin) January 17, 2024

ROHIT SHARMA !!! 😭🩵🩵🩵 the way he loves to prove all the haters wrong 🤌🏻🔥 what an incredible incredible innings man 🙏🏻 lost for words.5th t20I century most ever,tight slap to all the haters!!#RohitSharma | #INDvAFG | #RohitSharma𓃵 pic.twitter.com/Y1fESQ7ZGL

— Ishaan (@Ishaan_04) January 17, 2024