Rohit Sharma

Rohit Sharma November 2016 (cropped).jpg

Rohit Sharma in November 2016
Personal information
Full name Rohit Gurunath Sharma
Born 30 April 1987 (age 31)
Nagpur, Maharashtra, India
Nickname Hitman, Shaana[1]
Height 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Batting Right-handed
Bowling Right-arm off break
Role Top-order Batsman
International information
National side
India
Test debut (cap 280) 6 November 2013 v West Indies
Last Test 13 January 2018 v South Africa
ODI debut (cap 168) 23 June 2007 v Ireland
Last ODI 16 February 2018 v South Africa
ODI shirt no. 45 (used 77 in 2012/13)
T20I debut (cap 17) 19 September 2007 v England
Last T20I 18 March 2018 v Bangladesh
T20I shirt no. 45
Domestic team information
Years Team
2006/07�present Mumbai
2008�2010 Deccan Chargers (squad no. 45)
2011�present Mumbai Indians (squad no. 45)
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI T20I FC
Matches 25 180 79 85
Runs scored 1479 6594 1852 6456
Batting average 39.97 44.55 30.87 54.71
100s/50s 3/9 17/34 2/14 20/29
Top score 177 264 118 309*
Balls bowled 334 593 68 2,104
Wickets 2 8 1 24
Bowling average 101.00 64.37 113.00 47.16
5 wickets in innings 0 0 0 0
10 wickets in match 0 n/a n/a 0
Best bowling 1/26 2/27 1/22 4/41
Catches/stumpings 24/� 60/� 26/� 66/�
Source: Cricinfo, 14 March 2018
Rohit Gurunath Sharma (born 30 April 1987) is an Indian international cricketer who
is the vice-captain of the India national team in limited-overs formats. He is a
right-handed batsman and an occasional right-arm off break bowler who plays for
Mumbai in domestic cricket and captains Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier
League.

Having started his international career at the age of 20, he was introduced by his
father, Sharma quickly came to be pegged by many analysts as a permanent fixture in
the Indian cricket team in the next decade. He made his ODI debut on 23 June 2007
against Ireland. In 2013, he started playing as an opening batsman for India ODI
team and performed consistently. He scored consecutive centuries in his first two
Test matches against the West Indies in November 2013, scoring 177 at the Eden
Gardens in Kolkata on debut, followed by a score of 111* in the next Test at the
Wankhede Stadium in India.[2][3] He played 108 ODIs before playing his maiden Test.
[4]
On 13 November 2014, Rohit Sharma scored 264 against Sri Lanka at Eden Gardens,
Kolkata, which is the highest individual score in ODIs. He has also scored 106
against South Africa in Twenty20 Internationals and became the second Indian to
score a century in all three formats. He then became the only player in the world
to score three double hundreds in ODIs. Rohit Sharma is the first skipper to lead
his team to the IPL title thrice. As per Forbes India 2015 Top 100 celebrities in
India, Sharma is listed 8th in terms of fame, 46th in terms of income and 12th
overall.[5]

Contents
1 Early life
2 Playing career
2.1 Domestic
2.2 International
2.3 Captaincy
3 Indian Premier League
4 International centuries
5 Records
6 Awards
7 Personal life
8 References
9 External links
Early life
Sharma was born on 30 April 1987 in Bansod, Nagpur, Maharashtra. His mother Purnima
Sharma comes from Visakhapatnam.[6] His father Gurunath Sharma worked as a
caretaker of a transport firm storehouse. Sharma was raised by his grandparents and
uncles in Borivali because of his father's low income.[7] He would visit his
parents, who lived in a single-room house in Dombivli,[8] only during weekends.[7]
He has an elder brother, Vishal Sharma.[8]

Sharma joined a cricket camp in 1999 with his uncle's money. His coach at the camp
was Dinesh Lad who asked him to change his school to Swami Vivekanand International
School, where Lad was the coach and which had better cricket facilities. Sharma
recollects, "I told him I couldn't afford it, but he got me a scholarship. So for
four years I didn't pay a penny, and did well in my cricket."[7] Sharma started as
an off-spinner who could bat a bit before Lad noticed Sharma's batting abilities
and promoted him from number eight to open the innings. He excelled in the Harris
and Giles Shield school cricket tournaments, scoring a century on debut as an
opener.[9]