India, Oct. 29 -- It took over 18 years of international cricket for Rohit Sharma to attain the number one spot in the ICC ODI ranking of batters. Even his brilliance in the 2019 ODI World Cup, where he scored five centuries, did not see him get the spot. The fact that the Indian opener reached the summit of ODI batting rankings for the first time in his career sparked a lively moment on Cricbuzz, when the host called it 'a very strange fact that this is the first time...'

On the Cricbuzz panel, Harsha Bhogle went straight for the bigger question, "What does it tell you about the rankings?" Former RCB keeper-batter, Dinesh Karthik jumped in with what a memory almost every Indian fan shares, "I am surprised that in 2019, he was somewhere ...