India opener Rohit Sharma has mastered the art of piling up mammoth individual scores in white-ball cricket. He is the proud owner of the highest individual ODI score — 264 (against Sri Lanka in 2014) and is the only batsman in the history of cricket to have smashed three ODI double tons and four Twenty20 international centuries.

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On Saturday (May 2), Rohit recalled a T20I game against Sri Lanka in December 2017, where he felt he could have scored the first-ever double hundred in the shortest format of the game.

During that T20I match held in Indore, Sharma notched up the three-figure mark in just 35 balls. He shared a whirlwind opening stand of 165 with KL Rahul before being dismissed on 43-ball 118 in the 13th over.

"In that game I had a good chance to maybe make 200 also. When I got out there were still more than 9 overs (seven) left. So it was a good chance but fine, 35-ball 100 -- I will take that," Rohit said during a live online interaction with fans of his IPL franchise Mumbai Indians.

Riding on Rohit Sharma’s blazing hundred and Rahul’s 49-ball 89, India had posted a daunting 260/5 in 20 overs.

Chasing the target, Sri Lanka got bundled out for 172 in 17.2 overs with Yuzvendra Chahal (4/52) Kuldeep Yadav (3/52) doing the bulk of the damage with the ball.