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Rohit Sharma

Sharma in 2024

Personal information

Born

30 April 1987 (age 37)
Nagpur, Maharashtra, India

Nickname

Hitman ^[1]^[2]

Height

1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)

Batting

Right-handed

Bowling

Right-arm off break

Role

Top-order batter

International information\n

National side

India (2007\u2013present)

Test debut (cap 280)

6 November 2013 v West Indies

Last Test

30 December 2024 v Australia

ODI debut (cap 168)

23 June 2007 v Ireland

Last ODI

7 August 2024 v Sri Lanka

ODI shirt no.

45 (formerly 77)

T20I debut (cap 17)

19 September 2007 v England

Last T20I

29 June 2024 v South Africa

T20I shirt no.

45 (formerly 77)

Domestic team information\n

Years

Team

2006/07\u2013present

Mumbai

2008\u20132010

Deccan Chargers (squad no. 45)

2011\u2013present

Mumbai Indians (squad no. 45)

Career statistics

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Competition	Test	ODI	T20I	FC
Matches	67	265	159	128
Runs scored	4,301	10,866	4,231	9,287
Batting average	40.57	49.16	32.05	49.39
100s/50s	12/18	31/57	5/32	29/38
Top score	212	264	121\"	309\"
Balls bowled	383	610	68	2,153
Wickets	2	9	1	24
Bowling average	112.00	59.22	113.00	48.08
5 wickets in innings	0	0	0	0
10 wickets in match	0	0	0	0
Best bowling	1/26	2/27	1/22	4/41
Catches/stumpings	68/\u2013	95/\u2013	65/\u2013	112/\u2013

Medal record

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Men's cricket \n
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Representing $\"\"$ India\n
ODI World Cup\n
$\"Second$	2023 India	\n
T20 World Cup\n
$\"First$	2007 South Africa	\n
$\"First$	2024 West Indies / United States	\n
$\"Second$	2014 Bangladesh	\n
World Test Championship\n
$\"Second$	2021 England	\n
$\"Second$	2023 England	\n
Champions Trophy\n
$\"First$	2013 England / Wales	\n
$\"Second$	2017 England / Wales	\n
Asia Cup\n
$\"First$	2010 Sri Lanka	\n
$\"First$	2016 Bangladesh	\n
$\"First$	2018 United Arab Emirates	\n
$\"First$	2023 Pakistan / Sri Lanka	\n
$\"Second$	2008 Pakistan	\n
U19 World Cup\n
$\"Second$	2006 Sri Lanka	\n

Source: ESPNcricinfo, 30 December 2024

Rohit Gurunath Sharma (born 30 April 1987) is an Indian cricketer and the captain of India national cricket team in Test and ODI formats. Widely regarded as one of the best batsmen of his generation and one of the greatest opening batters of all time,^[3] he is also regarded one of the greatest six hitters in cricket history. He is a right-handed batsman who plays for India in international cricket, Mumbai Indians in IPL and for Mumbai in domestic cricket. Rohit previously captained India in all three formats, and after leading the team to victory in 2024 T20 World Cup, he announced his retirement from T20Is.^[4]^[5]\n

He holds several batting records which famously include most runs in T20 Internationals, most sixes in international cricket,^[a] most double centuries in ODI cricket (3), most centuries at Cricket World Cups (7) and joint most hundreds in Twenty20 Internationals (5). He is the first player to score 5 T20I centuries,and holds record of hitting fastest T20I century in 35 balls.^[7] He also holds the world record for the highest individual score (264) in a One Day International (ODI) match and is the only player to have scored three double-centuries in ODIs and also holds the record for scoring most hundreds (five) in a single Cricket World Cup, for which he won the ICC Men's ODI Cricketer of the Year award in 2019. He is the only player to win 50 matches as captain in T20Is.^[8]\n

He plays for Mumbai Indians and Mumbai cricket team in Indian Premier League (IPL) and domestic cricket respectively. He formerly captained Mumbai Indians and the team has won 5 Indian Premier League titles in 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2020 under him, making him the most successful captain in IPL history, sharing this record with MS Dhoni. With India, Rohit Sharma was a member of the team that won the 2007 T20 World Cup, and the 2013 ICC Champions Trophy, where he played in the finals of both tournaments. He is also one of two players who have played in every edition of the T20 World Cup, from the inaugural edition in 2007 to the latest one in 2024.^[b] He is the only Indian player to win two T20 World Cups. He became the second Indian captain to win a T20 World Cup, when he led India to win the 2024 T20 World Cup.\n

He has received two national honours, the Arjuna Award in 2015 and the prestigious Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award in 2020 by the Government of India. Under his captaincy, India won the 2018 Asia Cup and the 2023 Asia Cup, the seventh and eighth time the country won the title, both in ODI format as well as the 2018 Nidahas Trophy, their second overall and first in T20I format.\n

Outside cricket, Sharma is an active supporter of animal welfare campaigns. He is the official Rhino Ambassador for WWF-India and is a member of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). He has worked with PETA in its campaign to raise awareness of the plight of homeless cats and dogs in India.\n

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v t e Recipients of Khel Ratna
1991\u20132000	\n Viswanathan Anand (1991\u20131992) \n Geet Sethi (1992\u20131993) \n Homi Motivala and Pushpendra Kumar Garg (1993\u20131994) \n Karnam Malleswari (1994\u20131995) \n Kunjarani Devi (1995\u20131996) \n Leander Paes (1996\u20131997) \n Sachin Tendulkar (1997\u20131998) \n Jyotirmoyee Sikdar (1998\u20131999) \n Dhanraj Pillay (1999\u20132000) \n Pullela Gopichand (2000\u20132001) \n
2001\u20132010	\n Abhinav Bindra (2001) \n K. M. Beenamol and Anjali Bhagwat (2002) \n Anju Bobby George (2003) \n Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore (2004) \n Pankaj Advani (2005) \n Manavjit Singh Sandhu (2006) \n MS Dhoni (2007) \n No award (2008) \n Mary Kom, Vijender Singh, and Sushil Kumar (2009) \n Saina Nehwal (2010) \n
2011\u20132020	\n Gagan Narang (2011) \n Vijay Kumar and Yogeshwar Dutt (2012) \n Ronjan Sodhi (2013) \n No award (2014) \n Sania Mirza (2015) \n P. V. Sindhu, Dipa Karmakar, Jitu Rai, and Sakshi Malik (2016) \n Devendra Jhajharia and Sardara Singh (2017) \n Saikhom Mirabai Chanu and Virat Kohli (2018) \n Deepa Malik and Bajrang Punia (2019) \n Rohit Sharma, Mariyappan Thangavelu, Manika Batra, Vinesh Phogat, and Rani Rampal (2020) \n
2021\u20132030	\n Avani Lekhara, Neeraj Chopra, Ravi Kumar Dahiya, Lovlina Borgohain, P. R. Sreejesh, Sumit Antil, Pramod Bhagat, Krishna Nagar, Manish Narwal, Mithali Raj, Sunil Chhetri and Manpreet Singh (2021) \n Sharath Kamal (2022) \n Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy (2023) \n Gukesh Dommaraju, Manu Bhaker, Harmanpreet Singh, and Praveen Kumar (2024) \n

v t e India T20I cricket captains
\n 2006: Sehwag \n 2007\u20132016: Dhoni \n 2010\u201311: Raina \n 2015: Rahane \n 2016\u201321: Kohli \n 2017\u201324: Sharma \n 2021: Dhawan \n 2022: Pant \n 2022\u201323: Pandya \n 2022: Rahul \n 2023: Bumrah \n 2023: Gaikwad \n 2023\u2013present: Yadav \n 2024: Gill \n
Italics denote deputised captaincy

Early life

Personal life

Commercial endorsements

Youth and domestic first-class career

International career

Test matches

2015, 2019 and 2023 Cricket World Cups

Other one-day international matches

Twenty20 international matches

Indian Premier League

Playing style

Achievements

National honours

Sporting honours

Television appearances

Philanthropy

References

External links

Rohit Sharma

Talks

28 May, 2010