Even though Rohit Sharma is widely regarded as one of the finest white-ball cricketers in the world, his record in Test cricket especially since he began opening has been nothing short of extraordinary. The Indian captain's numbers speaks for him as he broke an incredible world record during his brisk-half-century in the second Test match against West Indies at the Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain in Trinidad. As soon as he went past the 10-run mark in his innings, he made a fascinating achievement going past Sri Lankan legend Mahela Jayawardene.
The Indian opener registered his 30th successive double-digit score in Test match cricket, a record matched by no other player in the histort of the sport. The previous best was by Jayawardene who had recorded 29 back-to-back double digit scores in the game's longest format. Scores of Rohit's last Test innings read: 12, 161, 26, 66, 25*, 49, 34, 30, 36, 12*, 83, 21, 19, 59, 11, 127, 29, 15, 46, 120, 32, 31, 12, 12, 35, 15, 43, 103, 80 and 57.
The Mumbai Indians skipper was in terrific form on Sunday as he brought up the fastest fifty of his Test career, just what the doctor ordererd in the context of the match for Team India. He eventually departed for 57 off 44 balls as India declared their second innings for 181/2 in 24 overs with Ishan Kishan also completing a quickfire half-century (52* off 32 deliveries). With this, the visitors set West Indies a target of 365 to win.
Till the end of Day 4's play, India even managed to scalp a couple of wickets with Ravichandran Ashwin getting rid of the West Indies captain Kraigg Brathwaite before removing debuant Kirk McKenzie for a 4-ball duck. India need 8 wickets on the final day to win while West Indies need 289 more runs to win. The hosts will have to bat out the day to draw the match but it won't be an easy task against an in-form Indian bowling attack and potentially a maximum of 98 overs set to be bowled on Day 5.