The most expensive dropped chances in all forms of cricket

One Day Internationals and List A cricket

Rohit Sharma watches on as Thisara Perera drops the catch

Rohit Sharma's love affair with Kolkata and the Sri Lankan bowling is nothing new. There is no better proof of this than the fourth ODI of the series in 2014-15 that was played in the Eden Gardens. India had already pocketed the series by virtue of winning the first three matches.

Virat Kohli won the toss and elected to bat first. In the fifth over of the day, Shaminda Eranga replaced Nuwan Kulasekara after the latter had bowled two expensive overs. In the third ball of Eranga's first over, Rohit, already tied down, tried to have one of the offside fences. He could not connect the ball properly and skied it up to Thisara Perera at third-man. Thisara's fingers were pointed up at the time of contacting the ball and it spilled out of his hands.

Sharma needed that reprieve and slowly found his touch. Once he was back to his fluent best, there was no stopping him. He slaughtered the rather hapless Sri Lankan bowling to all corners of the ground and finished with the world-record score of 264.

Perera's miss cost his team 260 runs in an ODI match! It is the most expensive dropped catch in the history of both ODI and List A cricket