{ "id": "71500", "author": "23", "cnmid": "0", "title": "Ind vs Eng, 2nd Test: Rohit Sharma Scores First Test Century In Over A Year", "lang": "en", "series": "435", "cup_year": "2021", "article_type": "General", "excerpt": "India opener Rohit Sharma scored his first Test century in over a year and after eight Test innings to drive India ahead on the first day of the second Test on a pitch that aided turn from the first s", "subtype": "", "editor1": "

India opener Rohit Sharma scored his first Test century in over a year and after eight Test innings to drive India ahead on the first day of the second Test on a pitch that aided turn from the first session.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

The right-handed batsman, on way to his seventh Test ton, took an aggressive route to return to form, playing his shots on a wicket that offered nothing to the fast bowlers but plenty to the spinners.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

The 33-year-old took 130 deliveries for his century, lacing it with 14 fours and two sixes.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Sharma got India off the mark with a boundary through extra cover even though fellow opening partner Shubman Gill had fallen in only the second over of the match.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

He then dealt in boundaries reaching 41 off 36 balls at the first drinks break, hitting six fours and a six. Sharma reached his fifty -- with two more fours -- just after the drinks break off 49 deliveries.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Rohit Sharma Surpasses Sunil Gavaskar!!
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