1. Rohit Sharma was born on 30 April 1987 and is an Indian international cricketer and the captain of Indian cricket team in Test and ODI formats.
101 Facts About Rohit Sharma
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Rohit Sharma is widely regarded as one of the greatest ODI opening batters of all time.
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Rohit Sharma is a right-handed batsman who plays for Mumbai Indians in Indian Premier League and for Mumbai in domestic cricket.
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Rohit Sharma led India to victory in the 2025 ICC Champions Trophy.
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Rohit Sharma holds several batting records which famously include most runs in T20 Internationals, most sixes in international cricket, most double centuries in ODI cricket, most centuries at Cricket World Cups and joint most hundreds in Twenty20 Internationals.
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Rohit Sharma holds the world record for the highest individual score in a One Day International and holds the record for scoring most hundreds in a single Cricket World Cup, for which he won the ICC Men's ODI Cricketer of the Year award in 2019.
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Rohit Sharma is the first and only captain to lead a team in all ICC tournament finals.
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Rohit Sharma plays for Mumbai Indians and Mumbai cricket team in Indian Premier League and domestic cricket respectively.
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Rohit Sharma 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.
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Rohit Sharma is 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.
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Rohit Sharma is the only Indian player to win two T20 World Cups.
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Rohit Sharma became the second Indian captain to win a T20 World Cup, when he led India to win the 2024 T20 World Cup.
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Rohit Sharma has received two national honours, the Arjuna Award in 2015 and the prestigious Khel Ratna Award in 2020 by the Government of India.
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Rohit Sharma would visit his parents, who lived in a single-room house in Dombivli, only during weekends.
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Rohit Sharma joined a cricket camp in 1999 with his uncle's money.
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Rohit Sharma started as an off-spinner who could bat a bit before Lad noticed his batting ability and promoted him from number eight to open the innings.
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Rohit Sharma excelled in the Harris and Giles Shield school cricket tournaments, scoring a century on debut as an opener.
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Rohit Sharma married his longtime girlfriend, Ritika Sajdeh on 13 December 2015 whom he first met in 2008.
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Rohit Sharma is a practitioner of the meditation technique Sahaj Marg.
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Rohit Sharma has been sponsored by several brands including CEAT and the Swiss watchmaker Hublot.
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Rohit Sharma made his List A debut for West Zone against Central Zone in the Deodhar Trophy at Gwalior in March 2005.
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Rohit Sharma visited Abu Dhabi and Australia with the India A squad and was then included among India's 30-member probable's list for the upcoming ICC Champions Trophy tournament, although he did not make the final squad.
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Rohit Sharma made his first-class debut for India A against New Zealand A at Darwin in July 2006.
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Rohit Sharma scored 57 and 22 as India won by 3 wickets.
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Mumbai went on to win the tournament with Rohit Sharma scoring a half-century in his second innings in the final against Bengal.
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Rohit Sharma has spent his entire domestic first-class career at Mumbai.
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In November 2013, during Sachin Tendulkar's farewell series, Rohit Sharma made his Test debut at Eden Gardens in Kolkata against West Indies and scored 177, the second-highest score on debut by an Indian to Shikhar Dhawan.
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Rohit Sharma followed it up with 111 in the second Test at his home ground, the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai.
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Rohit Sharma played in the first Test in Adelaide, scoring 37 and 1 in an Indian victory.
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In October 2019, in the third Test against South Africa, Rohit Sharma scored his 2,000th run and his first double century in Tests.
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Rohit Sharma made 212 in the first innings of the match.
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Rohit Sharma was named as vice-captain of India's Test team during the tour of Australia in 2020, replacing Cheteshwar Pujara.
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Rohit Sharma had a successful home series against England in 2021.
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Rohit Sharma top-scored for his side in both innings of the low-scoring third Test in Ahmedabad with scores of 66 and 25 contributing to his team's win.
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Rohit Sharma finished the series aggregating 345 runs, the most for India, at an average of 58.
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Rohit Sharma went on to score his first overseas Test century on 4 September 2021 with an innings of 127 against England at The Oval, reaching the milestone of 3,000 runs in Test cricket.
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Rohit Sharma was appointed captain of India's Test team in February 2022, succeeding Virat Kohli, ahead of a two-match series against Sri Lanka.
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In March 2015, Rohit Sharma made his first appearance in the Cricket World Cup and played in eight matches for India in the 2015 tournament in Australia.
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Rohit Sharma scored 330 runs in the tournament with one century, a score of 137 in the quarter-final against Bangladesh.
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On 15 April 2019, Rohit Sharma was appointed vice-captain of India's squad for the 2019 World Cup in England.
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Rohit Sharma followed it up with centuries against Pakistan, England and Bangladesh.
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Rohit Sharma totalled 648 runs in the tournament to finish as the leading run-scorer and win the ICC's Golden Bat award, the third Indian player to do so.
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On 8 October 2023, during the ICC Cricket World Cup, Rohit Sharma was entrusted with the captaincy responsibilities for the Indian team in a match against Australia.
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On 11 October 2023, during a match against Afghanistan in the Cricket World Cup 2023, Rohit Sharma achieved a milestone by surpassing the Sachin Tendulkar's record for the most centuries in World Cup history.
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Rohit Sharma made his full international debut in a one-day match against Ireland in Belfast on 23 June 2007.
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Rohit Sharma was number seven in the batting order but did not bat as India won the game by 9 wickets.
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Rohit Sharma scored his maiden ODI century against Zimbabwe on 28 May 2010 and followed it up with another century in the next match of the tri-series against Sri Lanka on 30 May 2010 by scoring 101 not out.
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Rohit Sharma had a run of poor form in South Africa just before the 2011 World Cup and as a consequence he was left out of India's squad for the tournament.
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Rohit Sharma was recalled to the limited-overs squad for the tour of the West Indies in June and July 2011.
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Rohit Sharma had a disastrous loss of form in 2012 and scored only 168 runs in the whole calendar year at the very low average of 12.92 with just a single half-century.
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Rohit Sharma followed that with 209 off 158 balls in Bangalore and established a then-world record for the most sixes in a one-day international innings.
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On 13 November 2014, playing against Sri Lanka at Eden Gardens in Kolkata, Rohit Sharma broke the world record for the highest score in a one-day international innings with 264 from 173 deliveries.
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Rohit Sharma hit his third ODI double-century in this series, scoring 208 to extend his record of most ODI double-centuries by a player.
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In September 2018, in the absence of many top players including regular captain Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma led India to win the 2018 Asia Cup, where they defeated Bangladesh in the final.
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On 12 January 2019, in the opening match against Australia at the Sydney Cricket Ground, Rohit Sharma scored 133 but it was in vain as India lost by 34 runs.
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At Delhi on 13 March 2019, in the fifth and final match of a home series against Australia, Rohit Sharma scored 56 including his 8,000th run in one-day internationals.
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In November 2020, Rohit Sharma was nominated for the ICC Men's ODI Cricketer of the Decade award.
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In July 2022, Rohit Sharma became the first Indian captain to lead their team to both T20I and ODI series wins in England.
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Rohit Sharma became the 3rd Indian captain to win an ODI series in England, and the first since 2014.
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In February 2025, at the ICC Champions Trophy, in a group game against Bangladesh, Rohit Sharma became the 2nd fastest player to score 11,000 runs in ODI Cricket.
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Rohit Sharma achieved this feat in 261 innings, behind only Virat Kohli who achieved it in 222 innings.
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Rohit Sharma was included in the Indian squad for the 2007 ICC World Twenty20 and made his mark by scoring an unbeaten 50 from 40 deliveries against hosts South Africa in a must win Super Eight match.
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On 2 October 2015, during the South African tour of India, Rohit Sharma scored 106 in the first Twenty20 international at HPCA Stadium in Dharamshala.
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In December 2017, in a series against Sri Lanka, Rohit Sharma scored the joint-fastest T20I century, in 35 balls, ending with 118 from 43 deliveries, equaling the record of David Miller.
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On 8 July 2018, during a series in England, Rohit Sharma became the second Indian batsman, after Virat Kohli, to score 2,000 runs in a Twenty20 international career.
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Rohit Sharma was the fifth batsman worldwide to achieve the feat; the others besides Kohli were Brendon McCullum, Martin Guptill and Shoaib Malik.
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Rohit Sharma scored his third T20I century during this series, equaling the then-record for most T20I centuries, held by Colin Munro.
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In November 2019, in the opening match of the series against Bangladesh, Rohit Sharma became the most-capped cricketer for India in T20Is, playing in his 99th match.
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In November 2020, Rohit Sharma was nominated for the ICC Men's T20I Cricketer of the Decade award.
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In July 2022, Rohit Sharma became the first captain in T20I history to lead their team to 14 consecutive victories.
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On 27 October 2022, Rohit Sharma broke the record for most sixes by an Indian batsman in T20 World Cups, previously held by Yuvraj Singh, hitting his 34th six against Netherlands at Sydney Cricket Ground.
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In June 2024, during a match against Ireland, Rohit Sharma achieved the milestone of hitting 600 sixes in international cricket across all formats.
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On 29 June 2024, Rohit Sharma led India to win the 2024 T-20 World cup after defeating South Africa in the finals.
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Rohit Sharma joined the Indian Premier League in 2008 when he was signed by the Deccan Chargers franchise, based in Hyderabad, for the sum of US$750,000 a year.
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Rohit Sharma scored his maiden IPL century in the 2012 season with 109* off 60 balls against the Kolkata Knight Riders.
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Rohit Sharma has been one of the most successful players in the IPL as captain since 2013 of the Mumbai Indians, who have won the tournament five times under his leadership.
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Rohit Sharma led Mumbai Indians in 158 matches securing 87 victories, making him the second-most successful captain in IPL history surpassed only by MS Dhoni with 133 victories.
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Rohit Sharma is one of seven players who have scored 5,000 career runs in the competition.
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Rohit Sharma has scored 6,628 runs with 2 centuries and 43 half centuries and is the third-highest run scorer after Virat Kohli and Shikhar Dhawan.
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In 2024 Rohit Sharma was sacked as the captain, in favour of Hardik Pandya, their new buy.
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Rohit Sharma is an aggressive batsman but plays with style and elegance.
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Rohit Sharma is usually an opening batsman in limited overs cricket, but has played most of his Test cricket as a middle-order batsman.
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In limited overs cricket, Rohit Sharma is widely recognised as one of the format's most outstanding batsmen.
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Sunil Gavaskar considers Rohit Sharma to have a batting style similar to those of Virender Sehwag and Viv Richards.
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When Viru used to get out looking to hit another delivery out of the park, there used to be consternation around the ground, just like it is when Rohit Sharma gets out to a seemingly casual shot.
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Rohit Sharma usually fields in the slips and has said this is a part of his game which he works very hard on for improvement.
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Rohit Sharma scored the highest-ever individual score in a One Day International match, with a 264 against Sri Lanka at the Eden Gardens, Kolkata on 13 November 2014.
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Rohit Sharma is the only player to have scored three double-centuries in ODIs.
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In January 2020, Rohit Sharma was named as the ODI Player of the Year by the International Cricket Council.
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In 2019, Rohit Sharma became the only batsman to scored five centuries in a single edition of the Cricket World Cup.
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On 5 October 2019, during a Test match against South Africa, Rohit Sharma became the first batsman to score two centuries in a match on his first appearance as an opening batsman.
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On 11 October 2023, Rohit Sharma achieved a historic feat during the 2023 Cricket World Cup match against Afghanistan team, when he surpassed the record previously held by Chris Gayle for the most international sixes.
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On 14 October 2023, Rohit Sharma achieved a milestone in the world of cricket by becoming the first Indian to complete 300 sixes in the 50-overs format.
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On 2 August 2024, Rohit Sharma surpassed Eoin Morgan to have hit most sixes in international cricket as captain.
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Rohit Sharma engages in numerous philanthropic activities, promoting various causes such as animal welfare, health, and children.
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Rohit Sharma is particularly vocal about the protection of animals and has supported various initiatives and organisations to promote the cause.
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In February 2015, Rohit Sharma joined People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals to support sterilisation of homeless cats and dogs.
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When supporting the cause Rohit Sharma said, "Sterilisation is important because I feel that if we can stop, there will be control of population among the street dogs".
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In September 2015, along with Hollywood actors Matt LeBlanc and Salma Hayek, Rohit Sharma joined an anti-poaching campaign in Kenya to save the wild animals of Africa including the last surviving northern white rhinoceros.
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Rohit Sharma told his Twitter followers: "All proceeds from your purchases would go to an animal charity of my choice".
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In 2018 on "World Rhino Day", Rohit Sharma was announced as the WWF-India Rhino Ambassador.