With His 2nd ODI Century, Rohit Sharma Returns To Form as India Wins The Series.
2nd ODI Century Rohit Sharma In the **2nd ODI of 2025**, **Rohit Sharma** delivered a masterclass by scoring a magnificent century, further cementing his legacy as one of the greatest ODI batsmen of all time. Known for his elegant stroke play and ability to dominate bowling attacks, Sharma’s innings was a blend of patience and aggression. He paced his knock perfectly, starting cautiously before unleashing his trademark pull shots, cover drives, and lofted sixes. His century not only anchored the innings but also provided the platform for a competitive total or a successful chase, depending on the match context. This performance once again highlighted his ability to rise to the occasion and lead from the front, proving why he remains a vital cog in India’s batting lineup. Fans and critics alike celebrated his innings, as it was a reminder of his class and consistency in the 50-over format.
Rohit and Shubman Gill returned to the top of the order with a 136-run partnership, helping India knock down their goal of 305 with 33 balls remaining.
India Defeated England 304 (Root 69, Duckett 65, Jadeja 3-35) by four wickets at 308 for 6 (Rohit 119, Gill 60, Iyer 44, Axar 41*).
2nd ODI Century Rohit Sharma In the second ODI against England at Cuttack, Rohit Sharma dominated to his 32nd ODI century, putting his team in an unassailable 2-0 series lead and demonstrating his readiness to guide India into the Champions Trophy.
After a disjointed England performance that included seven double-figure scores but nothing more impressive than Joe Root’s 69 from 72 balls, India was set a tough but manageable 305 to win. Rohit showed the combination of strength and stamina that the black-soil conditions demanded by breaking the back of the chase with 119 from 90 balls, which included 12 fours and seven sixes 2nd ODI Century Rohit Sharma.
With the final of those sixes, a magnificent lofted drive over wide long-off from Adil Rashid, he reached his milestone from 76 balls. With 85 runs remaining, he could have lost by a crushing margin if he hadn’t smashed a full-toss from Liam Livingstone to midwicket. Axar Patel’s composed 41 not out from 43 balls was necessary to save disgrace after Shreyas Iyer was unnecessarily run out for 44, causing India to lose three wickets in five overs and inject some late anxieties into their chase 2nd ODI Century Rohit Sharma.
In actuality, though, England had been chasing shadows for a long time until their main ball-tormenting player, Ravindra Jadeja, hit the game-winning boundary with 33 balls remaining. At one point, when a floodlight malfunction in the seventh over resulted in a tiresome forty-minute wait, the shadows had actually been real 2nd ODI Century Rohit Sharma.
Rohit has played too few ODIs recently to be regarded as out of form in the format, even with his well-documented problems in Australia this winter and his unconvincing two from seven balls in Nagpur on Thursday. Since the World Cup final in November 2023, when his 597-run haul at 54.27 was crucial to his team’s journey to the championship game, this was only his fifth 50-over innings. In August, he added two more fifties in three innings while playing in Sri Lanka. With his 38th birthday approaching in April and 11,000 career ODI runs waiting for him in Ahmedabad on Wednesday, he still appears to have a few more to go 2nd ODI Century Rohit Sharma.
2nd ODI Century Rohit Sharma Although they weren’t his final seven balls, Rohit’s first seven balls were the least convincing of his innings, much like in Nagpur. It seemed as though a switch had been flipped in his game-brain when he rediscovered his range one ball later after his first boundary, a streaking four off Gus Atkinson into deep third. His timing was suddenly in line with the surface when he hit a brilliant pick-up off the pads that went over deep midwicket for six, possibly the greatest shot he had played all winter. After challenging him in a close opening over, Saqib Mahmood was hit for two more sixes in overs three and five, over long-off and extra cover, and the chase resumed.
Before They Fell Apart, England Was In A Terrific Position Thanks To The Fifties From Joe Root And Ben Duckett.
The fury could have been much greater when Mark Wood joined the assault after the restart and hit Rohit on the knee-roll with his third ball. Rohit had already relaxed along to 29 off 18 when the floodlight failure set in. In response, Rohit slammed his front foot to the pitch of his next ball and lifted Wood clean over long-off for his fourth six in eight overs, which was more than England managed in their whole innings. However, ball-tracking determined that England’s review had merely been clipping leg 2nd ODI Century Rohit Sharma.
Rashid, who frequently served as England’s trump card, was powerless to stop the momentum. Prior to Shubman Gill, who had been the quiet partner, demonstrating that he wasn’t going to waste his strong start with a fantastic slog-sweep for his lone six, Rohit smashed him for two more fours in his first over, advancing him to a 30-ball fifty.
In the 14th over, Gill pulled off another four to raise the partnership to 100. An over later, he reached his own fifty, off 45 balls, and for the 21st time in 49 ODI innings, at an average that just barely over 60. Still reeling from his severe treatment in the first Twenty20 International, Atkinson returned to the attack and was hauled for two more drawn boundaries by Rohit, one a filthy half-tracker that was dropped behind square for his fifth six, exposing England’s lack of variation.
When the breakthrough did come, it was a bit unexpected. Gill had smashed Jamie Overton for two fours in four balls when he responded with a brilliant yorker that hit the off stump at 141 kph. However, the brief quiet in Cuttack was nearly instantly broken by a shout of cheers when Virat Kohli, who had returned to the squad following his knee injury in Nagpur, left the field with the score at 136 for 1.
Not that it would be a long stay. The audience erupted in cheers after Atkinson hit a clever four, but there were only eight deliveries left for Kohli when Rashid twisted a legbreak past another powerful drive. Phil Salt’s brilliant take was rewarded when England’s review revealed a feathered edge. Although he would claim, like his captain, that he was Player of the Tournament for his 765 runs at the 2023 World Cup not that many ODIs ago, Kohli’s failure was as severe as Rohit’s after being called up to the XI in favor of India’s rising star, Yashasvi Jaiswal 2nd ODI Century Rohit Sharma.
2nd ODI Century Rohit Sharma The issues facing England are a little more serious. Similar to their World Cup low-wattage batting performances, this one again promised much more than it actually did. Ben Duckett and Phil Salt gave them another strong start after winning the toss. Their opening partnership of 81 in 65 balls was their third successive partnership of fifty or more in this tour. Additionally, England had plans on a total of 330 or more, while Root and Jos Buttler were easing through the gears in a fourth-wicket stand of 51.
 2nd ODI Century Rohit Sharma Rather, both set batsmen were removed in four overs, causing yet another spectacular collapse: England was dismissed for 304 with one ball remaining after losing their final seven wickets for 85, including three run-outs. Naturally, the catalysts were India’s spinners, especially Jadeja, who returned the impressive figures of 3 for 35 and proved too cunning for some one-dimensional shot selection.
The most prominent of these was Overton, who England appears certain can be their Andre Russell of death overs. His innings of 6 from 10 balls was more proof that his long-levered style is doomed to fail in spin-friendly conditions, but his participation at No. 7 was confirmed after Jacob Bethell was ruled out with a concerning hamstring issue.
Rashid smacked three consecutive fours off Mohammed Shami to reach 14 from 5 balls, but he ran himself out just as his eye was in. Ivingstone at least received the memo with a strong late innings of 41 from 32 balls, including two big sixes off Harshit Rana.
However, India had other opportunities to end the innings for even fewer runs, which is concerning for England. Rohit was left giggling at the large screen when Root was shown to have been plumb lbw to Axar for 16, with India having selected the ball, and then lost two easy opportunities in the deep, including the most casually terrible slip from Axar at deep third when Salt had made just 6 off 12 balls.
 2nd ODI Century Rohit Sharma This trip, umpire Chris Brown has been particularly critical of Harry Brook’s technique against spin. He hit 31 but might have been sent for a five-ball duck if he had sustained Varun Chakravarthy’s lbw plea, which ball-tracking indicated would clip leg. Varun made his ODI debut at the age of 33 after taking 14 wickets at 9.85 in the Twenty20 Internationals. After just 11 deliveries, he put an end to Salt’s stay and set off a well-known middle-overs squeeze that India would not eventually give up 2nd ODI Century Rohit Sharma.