ROHIT SHARMA BIOGRAPHY

Rohit Sharma Biography

Rohit Sharma is an Indian cricketer and is currently the Indian ODI and T20 team’s vice-captain. He also serves as the captain of the IPL team Mumbai Indians. He has a number of records under his name. Rohit Sharma has scored under his name. Rohit Sharma has scored 3 double-centuries in ODI, in audition, to the centuries in T20 and test formats too. Due to his hard-hitting ability, he is also famously known as ‘the hit man’. He gained recognition right from his early days. He started at a mere age of 20 and soon was getting praises for his mature and clam performance.

Early Life

Born on April 30 1987 in Nagpur, Maharashtra, in a family of limited means, he soon found his interest in cricket. He caught the eye of Dinesh lad, a cricket coach, who supported him financially to get admission into swami Vivekananda international school. He shone in the school cricket tournaments scoring a century.

Career

Rohit Sharma made his debut in the ODI format against Ireland in 2007. Later that year, he drove India to victory against South Africa and earned the ‘Man of Match’ award for being unbeaten at 50 of 40 balls.

He also got selected for Australia’s commonwealth bank series 2007-08, where he scored 2 more centuries. However, he went through a rough patch in career shortly after, where a series of continued bad performances landed him in team’s middle-order position. Later on, he was even dropped from the playing 11 of the team in India’s Bangladesh tour in 2009.

Due to his poor form, he was not considered for the 2011 world cup as well. However, he revived from his bad from in 2011 match against West Indies, securing ‘Man Of Series’ award. His 2 half-centuries and a phenomenal 86 of 91 balls when India was struggling at 92-6 again raised his ranks.

Rohit Sharma made his test debut in November 2013 and scored impressive 2 back to back centuries. Rohit Sharma is now the third Indian batsmen to achieve this after Sourav Ganguly and Mohammad Azaruddin. In 2014, his career took another upswing when he broke a series of ODI records against Sri*Lanka scoring 264 runs. This was the instance of 2 double hundreds and ODI’s first 250.

Due to his brilliant performance, he was bought for US $2 million in IPL 2011 season by the Mumbai Indians team. Under his captaincy the team won in the season 2013, 2015 and 2017. In 2017 he captained the team in Sri Lanks series in the absence of the skipper Virat Kholi. A win of 2-1 in ODI and 3-0 in T20 series was famously registered.

Awards & Achievements

• Rohit Sharma received a number of ‘Man Of Match’ and series  awards.
• Rohit Sharma was honored with ‘Arjuna Award” in 2015.
• He is the only one player to score 264 runs in ODIs.
• He is the only Indian who has centuries in all formats of cricket, other than Suresh raina.

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