Rohit Sharma

The Hitman who rewrote ODI records and led India to ICC glory.

Rohit Gurunath Sharma (born 30 April 1987) is an Indian international cricketer and the former captain of the India national cricket team in all formats of the game. He is a right-handed top-order batter. He represents Mumbai in domestic cricket and Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League.

Quick Facts

Full name: Rohit Gurunath Sharma
Nickname: Hitman, Shana
Born: 30 April 1987
Birthplace: Nagpur, Maharashtra, India
Batting: Right-handed
Bowling: Right-arm off break
Role: Top-order batter
Country: India

Lore & Background

Sharma was a member of the teams that won the 2007 T20 World Cup, the 2013 ICC Champions Trophy and was the winning captain of the 2024 T20 World Cup and the 2025 ICC Champions Trophy. He formerly captained Mumbai Indians and the team has won five Indian Premier League titles in 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2020 under him, making him the most successful captain in IPL history, sharing this record with MS Dhoni. Under his captaincy, India won the 2018 Asia Cup and the 2023 Asia Cup, the seventh and eighth time the country won the title, both in ODI format as well as the 2018 Nidahas Trophy, their second overall and first in T20I format.

Reader's Guide

Sharma holds several batting records which include most runs in T20 Internationals, most sixes in international cricket, most double centuries in ODI cricket (3), most centuries at Cricket World Cups (7) and joint most hundreds in Twenty20 Internationals (5). He also holds the world record for the highest individual score (264) in a One Day International (ODI) and also holds the record for scoring most hundreds (five) in a single Cricket World Cup, for which he won the ICC Men's ODI Cricketer of the Year award in 2019. He is the first and only captain to lead a team in all ICC tournament finals. In November 2013, during Sachin Tendulkar's farewell series, Sharma made his Test debut at Eden Gardens in Kolkata against West Indies and scored 177, the second-highest individual score on debut by an Indian to Shikhar Dhawan (187).

Did You Know?

Sharma is one of two players who have played in every edition of the T20 World Cup, from the inaugural edition in 2007 till 2024.
He is the only Indian player to win two T20 World Cups.
He has received three national honours: the Arjuna Award in 2015, the Khel Ratna Award in 2020, and the Padma Shri in 2026.