INDvWI: Rohit Sharma has lit up Diwali - Twitter salutes Hitman for 4th T20I hundred

Rohit Sharma on Tuesday surpassed captain Virat Kohli to become India's highest run-scorer in T20 Internationals during the second game against the West Indies at the newly-built Ekana Stadium in Lucknow.

Rohit needed just 11 runs to surpass Kohli's record before the start of the match and the Mumbaikar achieved the feat in style, clobbering a 149kph delivery off pacer Oshane Thomas over the mid-off boundary in the fifth over.

Before Tuesday, Kohli held the record, amassing 2101 runs from 62 T20 matches at an average of 48.88. Rohit took 86 matches to reach the milestone.

Rohit went on to score his fourth T20I century as he remained unbeaten on 111 off 61 balls. The right-hander is the first player to score four T20I hundreds. The skipper's knock steered India to a massive 195 for 2 from 20 overs.

Twitter was full of praise for the Hitman.

Here are some tweets

Rohit the run machine ... that was sheer brilliance  111*(61)

— Gaurav Kapur (@gauravkapur) November 6, 2018

Most centuries:

Tests - Sachin Tendulkar (51)
ODIs - Sachin Tendulkar (49)
T20Is - Rohit Sharma (4)#IndvWI

— Bharath Seervi (@SeerviBharath) November 6, 2018

Rohit’s been unstoppable in past fee weeks, but despite his century West Indies must be guven credit for restricting score to under 200

— Cricketwallah (@cricketwallah) November 6, 2018

Rohit Sharma has to just remember from which side of the bed he got up today & make sure he repeats that on every match day.#INDvWI

— PhD in Bakchodi (@Atheist_Krishna) November 6, 2018

Rohit Sharma's innings is the reverse of Jio internet. Starts very slow, and gets into great speed towards the end.#indvWI

— SAGAR (@sagarcasm) November 6, 2018

Others: Celebrates the special day with the family!

Rohit Sharma celebrates the special day with the century!

— Broken Cricket (@BrokenCricket) November 6, 2018

Get to a screen, Rohit Sharma is lighting up Diwali #IndvWI

— Gaurav Kapur (@gauravkapur) November 6, 2018

Earlier, West Indies opted to bowl against India in the second T20 International of the three-match series.

India brought back Bhuvneshwar Kumar in place of Umesh Yadav while the West Indies replaced Rovman Powell with Nicolas Pooran.

Teams

India: Rohit Sharma(captain), Shikhar Dhawan, Lokesh Rahul, Rishabh Pant, Manish Pandey, Dinesh Karthik, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, K Khaleel Ahmed.

Windies: Shai Hope, Denesh Ramdin, Shimron Hetmyer, Kieron Pollard, Darren Bravo, Nicholas Pooran, Carlos Brathwaite(captain), Fabian Allen, Keemo Paul, Khary Pierre, Oshane Thomas.

(Inputs from PTI)