VIDEO | Rohit Sharma pierces two fielders with one-handed back-foot punch
As good a batsman Virat Kohli has been, no one - I repeat no one - in the modern-day cricket can play a backfoot punch with as much authority as Rohit Sharma. Today, he used only one hand against Khary Pierre to play a backfoot punch with point and backward point fielders standing like a spectator.
Rohit Sharma’s malleable wrists and the extra half a second, when he plays most of his shots, is what makes him one of the most stylish batsmen of all-time and for a player of his class, very little seems impossible. Be it the attitude of scoring big each time he gets going to making subtle arrangement in his body position to hit those punches through point, Rohit is a batsman extraordinaire in the limited-overs cricket.
His quality was well on the show today as he blew Windies’ bowlers to smithereens and scored his fourth century in the T20 international cricket - the first cricketer in the world to do so. While that is quite a significant achievement, in the process, he played a shot that would take your breath away.
After he hit Khary Pierre for a six behind the sightscreen, the bowler became nervous and immediately bowled a flat-full-toss that the Indian skipper was already anticipating. He moved