Rohit Sharma Biography, Profile, Age, Country, Cricket Stats, Wife, Height, Salary, IPL, Wiki, and more

Rohit Sharma is an Indian cricketer who plays for the team India. Rohit Sharma was born on Apr 30, 1987; and as of 2024, he is 37 years old. Rohit Sharma is a batter from Nagpur and bats right-handed. In his Test career to date, Rohit Sharma has played 59 matches to date in his Test career and has scored 4,137 runs, with an average of 45.

Rohit Sharma has hit 451 fours and 84 sixes in his Test career. In Mar 2024, he played his recent Test match against England at Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium, Dharamsala, India, scoring 103 runs off 162 balls. In Rohit Sharma’s ODI career, he has played 262 matches to date in his ODI career and has scored 10,709 runs, with an average of 49.

Rohit Sharma has hit 994 fours and 323 sixes in his ODI career. One of his recent ODI matches took place in Nov 2023 at Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad, India, where he contributed 47 runs off 31 balls. Rohit Sharma has played 151 matches to date in his T20 career and has scored 3,974 runs, with an average of 32.

Rohit Sharma has hit 359 fours and 190 sixes in his T20 career. In his most recent T20 match against Afghanistan at M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore, India, which took place in Jan 2024, Rohit Sharma contributed 121 runs off 69 balls to his team’s total.

Rohit Sharma is currently ranked 6th in the ICC Test batting rankings with a total of 751 points. He holds the 4th position in the ICC ODI batting rankings with a total of 746 points. Rohit Sharma is ranked 52nd in the ICC T20 batting rankings with a total of 492 points.

He made his IPL debut in 2008. Rohit Sharma has played 244 matches to d ate in his IPL career and has scored 6,254 runs, with an average of 29.64. He has also slammed 1 century and 42 half-centuries, with his highest IPL score being 109* runs.

Rohit Sharma has hit 561 fours and 258 sixes in his IPL career. In the IPL Auction 2024, the Mumbai franchise acquired the services of Rohit Sharma for Rs 16.00 Cr. In Mar 2024, he played his last IPL match against Gujarat at the Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad, India, scoring 43 runs off 29 balls.

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Rohit Sharma has won six IPL titles: one with Deccan Chargers and five as captain of Mumbai Indians (MI), making him the joint most successful captain in the Indian Premier League.

He joined Mumbai in 2011 and became captain in 2013. He took them to their maiden IPL title in his first season as captain and went on to lead MI for 11 years before he was replaced by Hardik Pandya for the 2024 season.

Rohit is MI’s top-scorer and one of only four batters with more than 6000 runs in the IPL. His only hundred – 109* against Kolkata Knight Riders – came in IPL 2012.

Rohit’s best IPL season with the bat was in 2013 when he scored 538 runs in MI’s title-winning campaign. In 2015, Rohit was the Player of the Final as Mumbai beat Chennai Super Kings to win their second IPL title. MI went on to win the IPL in 2017, 2019 and 2020 under Rohit’s leadership

Languid and easy on the eye, Rohit Sharma owned all the shots in the book when he emerged from the Mumbai suburbs as heir apparent to the Indian batting greats of the 2000s. It took him time and persistence, but by the 2010s he had become a colossus in white-ball cricket, and the man in charge of perhaps the most formidable league team in the first age of T20.

That Rohit had talent was apparent to both the casual observer and to the trained eye. Fans were frustrated at the long wait for the potential to translate into runs, though selectors and captains, knowing better, kept backing him. At one point the word “talent” was Rohit’s bugbear, a pejorative nickname for him on social media. Once it all clicked, though – the move to open the batting in ODIs late in 2012 was one particular turning point – things came together spectacularly.

Rohit scored ODI double-hundreds for fun, won six IPLs in the first 15 editions of the tournament, scored five hundreds at the 2019 ODI World Cup, and when he finally got to open in Tests in 2019, three quick hundreds in his first series in the role, one of them a double.

Ironically his IPL franchise nicknamed him “Hitman” when he was anything but: more caresser, less hitter. But Rohit still became known as one of the foremost hitters of colossal sixes of his era. So spectacular and certain was his acceleration that people began to anticipate a massive score every time he went past 50.

His captaincy at Mumbai Indians, whom he led to five titles, won plaudits. He proved himself a methodical, studious and calm leader, one not averse to using technology and data to arrive at decisions. He was an able deputy to Virat Kohli in limited-overs formats in international cricket, winning India two titles in Kohli’s absence, and took over as captain in all formats in 2022.

IPL through the years

The IPL has done a lot for Rohit Sharma. When he was a young, talented batsman who struggled with consistency, the IPL gave him a ticket to stay relevant, and he grabbed it with both hands during his time with the Deccan Chargers from 2008-2010, scoring over 350 runs in each of the three seasons. Then the IPL took him back to his home in Mumbai, and Rohit couldn’t have been happier. His statistics with the Mumbai Indians got progressively better from 2011-13, and eventually, his best IPL season in 2013 – where he finished the tournament with 538 runs – coincided with MI’s maiden title win.

And finally, the IPL helped unveil a leadership side of Rohit Sharma that has impressed a lot of people. Rohit led MI to five IPL titles which is an amazing accomplishment. Rohit is also among the all-time top run-scorers in the IPL, only behind Virat Kohli and Shikhar Dhawan.

Records

• Highest individual score in an ODI match (264 runs).
• The first player to score 2 double centuries in ODIs.
• Shares the record for the most number of 6s in an ODI match (16 sixes), joining AB de Villiers and Chris Gayle.
• Second Indian player after Suresh Raina to have scored a century in each of the 3 formats (Test, ODI, T20).
• Highest ODI score by a visiting batsman against Australia in Australia (171 runs).
• Third Indian player to score more than 1,000 runs against Australia in ODIs, joining Sachin Tendulkar and MS Dhoni.
• During the 2019 World Cup, apart from being the highest run scorer (648 runs), he broke many records including the most number of World Cup centuries. He scored his fifth ton in the World Cup in the last league match of India against Sri Lanka; breaking Kumar Sangakkara’s record for the most number of centuries in a single World Cup in the process. He also equalled the record for most centuries (i.e., 6 in number) in World Cups with Sachin Tendulkar. He also became only the fourth international batsman after Sachin Tendulkar (India – 2003), Mathew Hayden (Australia – 2007) and Shakib Al Hasan (Bangladesh – 2019) to score over 600 runs in a single edition of the World Cup.
• On 5 October 2019, during a test match against South Africa, he became the first batsman to score two centuries on debut as an opener.
• Maximum fifty-plus scores (30 times) in T20I
• On 12 September 2023, Rohit scored 10,000 ODI runs during a match against Sri Lanka at the 2023 Asia Cup, becoming the second-fastest to score such runs; he became the 6th Indian and the 15th overall to complete 10,000 runs.
• On 11 October 2023, Rohit recorded the most number of centuries in World Cup history by breaking Sachin Tendulkar’s record during a match against Afghanistan at the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2023.
• On 14 October 2023, he became the only third batter to hit 300 sixes in one-day internationals during the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2023.
• He became the first player in history to score five centuries in T20 internationals during a match against Afghanistan on 17 January 2024.

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Some Lesser-Known Facts About Rohit Sharma

• When Rohit was 1½ years old, his family moved to Dombivali, a suburb of Mumbai.
• His family’s financial condition was not good enough, so he was sent to live with his grandparents in Borivali, Mumbai, where he started playing ‘Galli Cricket.’
• Although he attended Rizvi College in Mumbai after he passed his 12th board examination, he dropped out of college to pursue his cricketing career. 
• At the age of 11, when he was in 6th standard, he joined a local cricket club in Borivali during his summer vacation, not as a batsman but as an off-spin bowler as there were too many batsmen.
• Dinesh Lad was the coach of the cricket club, and he discovered Rohit’s cricketing skills. It was Lad who helped Rohit get a scholarship for his admission at Swami Vivekanand International School, where he impressed the selectors with his off-spin and won many games for the school.
• Earlier, he used to bat at No. 8 or 9 as a tailender, but when his coach saw potential in his batting, he promoted his batting order in the nets.
• Rohit could not get selected in the Under-16 selection trial. However, he became the Player of the Tournament during Mumbai’s selection trials.
• Rohit opened in an inter-school ‘Giles Shield’ tournament match for the first time, where he scored career-changing 120-odd runs.
• Vasoo Paranjape, a former Indian cricketer and coach, played a significant role in ensuring Rohit’s inclusion not just in the U-17 team but also in the playing squad.
• By 2004, Rohit was emerging as a prominent talent in Mumbai. Pravin Amre, who was the chief junior selector then, was persuaded by Paranjape to observe Rohit’s performance in a local game, which led to Rohit securing a cricket scholarship. 
• In March 2005, Rohit Sharma played his first List A match for West Zone against Central Zone in the Deodhar Trophy at Gwalior, where he remained unbeaten with a score of 31. His standout performance occurred in the same competition when he played against North Zone at the Maharana Bhupal College Ground in Udaipur, scoring 142 runs off 123 balls.
• In July 2006, Rohit Sharma debuted in First Class cricket for India A against New Zealand A in Darwin, scoring 57 runs in his first innings and 22 in the second.
• He played his first Ranji match in the 2006-07 season for Mumbai against Gujarat, where he scored 205 runs from 267 balls.
• His record Ranji score, an unbeaten 309, was achieved in a game against Gujarat in December 2009.
• Following Ajit Agarkar‘s retirement in October 2013, Rohit Sharma was appointed as the captain of the Mumbai Ranji team.
• In 2008, the Deccan Chargers selected Rohit Sharma in the IPL auction.
• By 2011, he had moved to the Mumbai Indians. Leading the team, Rohit guided the Mumbai Indians to IPL victories in 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, and 2020.
• His sole century in the IPL was recorded in the 2012 season, scoring an unbeaten 109 against the Kolkata Knight Riders. 
• Rohit Sharma is an eggetarian. His coach, Dinesh Lad, mentioned that Rohit frequently visited his house to enjoy his preferred dish of half-fried eggs since non-vegetarian items were not allowed in Rohit’s family home at the time. Lad recounted an occasion when Rohit and three others consumed over 60 eggs in one evening at his residence.
• When he debuted in Test cricket in November 2013, it was Sachin Tendulkar‘s retirement series.
• Several companies, such as CEAT and the Swiss watch manufacturer Hublot, have endorsed him.
• He has promoted a wide range of brands, such as Maggi, Fair and Lovely, Lay’s, Nissan, the energy drink Relentless, Nasivion nasal spray, Aristocrat bags from VIP Industries, Adidas, and Oppo smartphones.
• Rohit Sharma’s aggressive batting style and his ability to hit sixes have earned him the nickname “Hitman.” 
• Sunil Gavaskar once said that Rohit Sharma’s batting technique was almost similar to those of Virender Sehwag and Viv Richards.
• Rohit Sharma is mostly spotted fielding in the slips, and he sometimes bowls right-arm off-spin.
• Rohit Sharma is actively involved in numerous animal welfare initiatives. In 2018, WWF-India appointed him as its Rhino Ambassador. He is also affiliated with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).
• In September 2015, Rohit Sharma joined Hollywood actors Matt LeBlanc and Salma Hayek in an anti-poaching initiative in Kenya aimed at protecting Africa’s wildlife, including the last northern white rhinoceros. 
• Rohit Sharma often forgets and misplaced things. Virat Kohli revealed this habit of Rohit during a conversation with Gaurav Kapur in 2017. Kohli said,
  The number of things Rohit Sharma forgets, I have never seen anyone else being this forgetful. iPad, wallet, phone, not the small things, but things for daily use. He (Rohit Sharma) has forgotten his passport two or three times. It was very hard to retrieve it.”
• Rohit Sharma’s mother tongue is Telugu. He once talked about his mother tongue and said,
  Yes, my mother tongue is Telugu…my mom is from Vizag.”
• He is a firm believer in Lord Ganesha and visits the Siddhivinayak Temple before any tour.R
• He once bunked his school to meet Virender Sehwag.
• He is a huge fan of the Real Madrid Football Club.
• He loves to sleep a lot. 
• According to Rohit, had he not become a cricketer, he would have become a real estate businessman.