Rohit Sharma might divide a lot of opinions. To some, he is a flat-track bully, to others he is a supreme talent in the limited overs’ games. However, what can’t be denied is that the man has ability when it comes to scoring 200s in ODIs.

Nobody had scored a single double hundred in ODIs till Sachin Tendulkar broke the duck against South Africa in Gwalior. After that, however, 6 double hundreds have been scored and 3 of them have been from the bat of Rohit Sharma.

When interviewed by Cricbuzz about how he manages to do it with such ease and whether he is changing the parameters of batting in the limited overs format, he claimed that it is not actually as easy as it looks.

“Not really [as easy as it looks]. In fact now that you mention it, I'm thinking to myself if I ever thought on those lines. In fact, in one of my recent interactions with the media, while answering a question, I actually had to emphasise on something that I'd like to point out again right now. I said 'it may look easy from the outside, but it's not. It's exactly the opposite'.”

He was then quizzed about how he does it so frequently when this is such a gargantuan task to conduct. The 30-year-old stated that the key for him to score big is to time the ball and play it with respect to the field and that he doesn’t try to hit them hard.

“I try and play with the field, more than anything else. I never try to hit the ball hard. I just try and hit the ball through the line.

“The central bit to my batting is to try and clear the field. There's no more science to it. My style of batting cannot be compared to the likes of Chris Gayle and Kieron Pollard, who can just stand and deliver from the word go.

“I have to do something at the crease to make it happen.”

Rohit Sharma’s double hundred are always a story that have two parts. The first part is when he plays relatively slow to reach the 100 mark and then completely going berserk to reach the next 100 in a space of 35-50 balls.

And according to Sharma, it is all about getting set—after which he gets into a rhythm of his own and that, in turn, allows him to reach optimum form. However, sometimes when it doesn’t work, he realizes that he will get criticized by the viewers.

“There are two sides to doing what I do. On the positive side, once the rhythm is set, it gives me a multi-dimensional view of the field and scoring becomes less complicated. It gets the desired result.