Watch: Kohli's reaction to Rohit Sharma's century goes viral, cricketers hail the opener on his first overseas Test ton
Team India opener Rohit Sharma played an outstanding knock of 127 runs as he brought up his first century outside India in Test matches.
Rohit Sharma, India's opening batsman finally crossed the hurdle and brought up his first Test century outside India, eight years after his debut in Test matches for India. Rohit, who has been one of the consistent Indian batters throughout this series two fifties before Saturday.
India needed a solid opening partnership after conceding a 99-run lead in the first innings and Rohit and KL Rahul, two of India's highest scorers in the series were at it again blunting the new ball, negotiating the tough period and riding on some luck to take their team unscathed through to stumps on the second day.
Both of them started the day in the same fashion before Rahul got out four short of his half-century as he completed 300 runs in the series. Rohit found an able ally in Cheteshwar Pujara as both of them exchanged their playing styles.
Pujara was aggressive from the start, taking on bowlers whether it was pull-shot against Moeen Ali or an upper-cut against Chris Woakes, Pujara showed his intent from the outset, which took the pressure off Rohit as he continued his merry run bringing up his third half-century of the series. But India needed a big one from the opener.
Rohit too opened up after getting to fifty as he scored his next 50 off just 59 balls bringing up a well-made, classy century in front of a huge crowd at the Oval. The entire dressing room including skipper Virat Kohli at the forefront was up on its feet applauding a game-changing and probably a series-defining knock.
Former cricketers, Virender Sehwag, Wasim Jaffer, VVS Laxman and fans couldn't stop praising the 'Hitman'.
Here are some of the reactions: