Rohit Gurunath Sharma
Rohit Gurunath Sharma
Rohit Gurunath Sharma
He is a right-
handed batsman and an occasional right-arm off break bowler who plays for Mumbai in domestic
cricket. He is the captain of the 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.
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 thus became the only player in the world to score two 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.[4]