Cricket and Bollywood fraternity congratulate Rohit Sharma for his record double ton

Rohit Sharma became the first batsman in the history of the gentleman’s game to score a third double century against Sri Lanka in the second ODI of the three-match series against Sri Lanka in Mohali.

Four other batsmen – Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Chris Gayle and Martin Guptill, have scored only one double hundred, but Rohit is the only man to score more than one in one-day internationals.

He blasted 13 fours and 12 sixes in his unbeaten 153-ball knock off unbeaten 208.

Twitter was flooded with tweets appreciating Rohit as he was trending at number 1. Cricket and Bollywood world also took up to the micro-blogging site as they congratulated the Indian batsman for playing a scintillating knock.

Here we have some of the tweets from the cricket and Bollywood fraternity congratulating Rohit Sharma:

https://twitter.com/Martyguptill/status/940876624660180994

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