rohit sharma vs mitchell starc, starc and smith challenged rohit sharma by putting four fielders, indian captain showed who is the real ball

Stark and Smith set the trap

Mitchell Starc trapped Rohit Sharma in the 5th over on the third day. Stark decided to bowl against Rohit. He also set up four players for the pull shot. With fine leg and long leg, Australia lined up two fielders at the square leg boundary line. Rohit Sharma played the first two balls of the over comfortably. On the third ball, he tried to play a pull shot but it did not come properly on the bat and went towards square leg.

hit fours and sixes

The fourth ball was also lofted and Rohit sent it to the right of fine leg for a four. After hitting the four, Stark threw the 5th ball forward. Rohit defended it. Stark bowled the last ball of the over once again. Rohit Sharma was also ready for this. He pulls and sends the ball over fine leg for a six. With this, he has 69 sixes equal to Sachin Tendulkar in Tests. In this over, the Australian captain removed Stark from the bowling itself.

17 thousand international runs completed

With this six, Rohit Sharma’s 17 thousand runs in international cricket were also completed. This was his 456th innings in his 438th match. He is the 28th player to reach this figure. Sachin Tendulkar has the highest 34357 runs. However, after playing an innings of 35 runs in 58 balls, Rohit was dismissed by Kuhneman. The ball stalled and he played it straight into the hands of short cover.

Wow Ashwin wow! The work of two batsmen was done in a single over, Bharat got the iron of keeping