Rohit Sharma

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Rohit Sharma

Rohit Sharma in November 2016

Personal information
Full name Rohit Gurunath Sharma
30 April 1987 (age 30)
Born
Nagpur, Maharashtra, India
Nickname Ro, Hitman, Shaana[1]
Height 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Batting Right-handed
Bowling Right-arm off break
Role Batsman
International information
India
National side
Test debut (cap 281) 6 November 2013 v West Indies
Last Test 2 December 2017 v Sri Lanka
ODI debut (cap 126) 23 June 2007 v Ireland
Last ODI 13 December 2017 v Sri Lanka
ODI shirt no. 45
T20I debut (cap 17) 19 September 2007 v England
Last T20I 7 November 2017 v New Zealand
Domestic team information
Years Team
2006/07present Mumbai
20082010 Deccan Chargers (squad no. 45)
2011present Mumbai Indians (squad no. 45)
Career statistics
 Competition Test ODI T20I FC
Matches 23 173 68 81
Runs scored 1401 6417 1485 6161
Batting average 42.45 45.51 30.30 54.52
100s/50s 3/9 16/34 1/12 19/27
Top score 177 264 106 309*
Balls bowled 334 593 68 2,104
Wickets 2 8 1 24
Bowling average 101.00 64.38 113.0 47.16
5 wickets in
0 0 0 0
innings
10 wickets in
0 0 0 0
match
Best bowling 1/26 2/27 1/22 4/41
Catches/stumpings 22/ 54/ 22/ 64/
Source: Cricinfo, 13 November 2017

Rohit Gurunath Sharma (born 30 April 1987) is an Indian international cricketer. He is the
only player to have scored three double centuries and highest individual score in ODI cricket.
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, 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]