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Joyful Birthday Rohit Sharma: The cricketer captained MI to 5 IPL titles before taking on the reins full-time for India back in November 2021.
Joyful Birthday Rohit Sharma: The cricketer made his debut for India in 2007. (Image: ICC/ X, formerly Twitter)
Joyful Birthday Rohit Sharma: Considered one of the best batters of this era, Rohit Sharma celebrates his birthday on April 30. The ever-graceful right-handed batter, whose effortless batting style continues to mesmerise cricket lovers, turns 38.
Renowned as ‘Hitman’ for his remarkable hitting ability, Rohit holds an amazing place within the hearts of his passionate fans, who should be thrilled to see him back in form in IPL 2025.
Through the years, Rohit has proven himself as a successful all-format player while also leading IPL franchise Mumbai Indians and his country to great heights on the sphere as captain. Rohit captained MI to 5 IPL titles before taking on the reins full-time for India back in November 2021.
He helped India transform their traditional approach to a more aggressive one, with the skipper leading the best way in his team’s successive ICC T20 World Cup 2024 and ICC Champions Trophy 2025 victories. Under his captaincy, India also reached the finals of the 2023 World Test Championship and ICC World Cup.
Rohit Sharma’s Journey
Coming from a humble background, Rohit’s initial journey was stuffed with hardships as he needed to live away from home together with his grandparents in Borivali, Mumbai as a result of the family’s financial struggles.
To pursue his education and cricketing dreams together, Rohit had to remain aside from his parents Gurunath and Purnima Sharma as a growing child. Living in Borivali allowed Rohit to affix a cricket club and train for adequate hours under right guidance.
Identified early as a special talent by coaches in Mumbai, Rohit soon got a probability to play junior cricket under MCA and BCCI wings and impressed with an encouraging run on the 2006 ICC U-19 World Cup in Sri Lanka with 205 runs in six innings.
Earmarked there for higher honours, he became a rare cricketer to make his List A debut for West Zone within the Deodhar Trophy that 12 months.
Rohit also got a probability to make his first-class debut for India A before even turning up for Mumbai within the Ranji Trophy when he played against Latest Zealand A in Darwin in July 2006.
He was awarded his maiden international cap for India in Belfast the very next 12 months against Ireland and shortly emerged as considered one of the heroes of the memorable 2007 T20 World Cup win.
Rohit Sharma’s Profession Stats
Rohit Sharma has played 67 Tests for India with 4,301 runs at a median of 40.57 and 12 a whole bunch. The batting giant has been a mighty superb player within the One-Day Internationals where he has recorded 11,168 runs from 273 games at a strike-rate of 92.80 and a median of 48.76.
Before his retirement from T20Is last 12 months, Rohit turned up within the format 159 times and produced 4,231 runs at a strike rate of 140.89. He has also scored 6,856 runs in his IPL profession.
Rohit Sharma’s Records
Rohit has achieved several landmarks, including the record for many centuries in a single edition of the ICC Cricket World Cup together with his five a whole bunch on the event’s 2019 edition in England.
He also produced the joint-most five centuries in T20Is before calling quits and has been a six-hitting machine, sending the ball out of the park for the record most variety of times in Test, ODI and T20Is combined. Rohit also became the second-fastest to 10,000 ODI runs last 12 months behind only teammate and legend Virat Kohli.
