It was not a video game. And there was no spring in his bat either – ask Indian fans about Sanath Jayasuriya and Ricky Ponting – but instead, a spring in his step. It was carnage at the Holkar stadium as Rohit Sharma, in typical effortless fashion, smoked the ball to all parts of the ground to bring up the joint fastest hundred in Twenty20 cricket.

The classy Mumbai batsman was smashing sixes with such ease that it prompted many to ask if he was human. The 30-year-old’s double hundred in Mohali is still fresh in many a cricket fan’s memory. Was it the “power in the air”, as Sanjay Manjarekar thinks it is? Was it the timing? Or is it simply bad bowling from Sri Lanka, who continue to feel the full wrath of Rohit’s extraordinary willow?

Records tumbled in droves as Rohit comfortably became India’s fastest T20 centurion and brought up the joint-fastest hundred in the format.