Rohit Sharma Birthday:
Rohit Sharma Birthday: Team India captain Rohit Sharma celebrating his 37th birthday today. Born on 30 April 1987, Rohit Sharma’s cricket journey is very exciting. Initially joining the team as a bowler, he reached the peak of achievement as an opener from the middle order.
The interesting story of his cricket journey is as follows.
World Cup century hero
Rohit Sharma, who is currently the captain of Team India, has the distinction of being the player who has scored the most centuries in a single World Cup. Rohit Sharma scored 5 centuries in the World Cup held in London in 2019. By this he broke the record held by Kumar Sangakkara of Lanka. Rohit played 9 matches and scored a total of 648 runs. Rohit has scored a total of 7 centuries in the World Cup. He scored a century each in the World Cup held in 2015 and 2023. In the ODI World Cup held last year, India lost in the final. Even though they lost, the entire world appreciated Rohit’s leadership.
Cricket Journey started as a bowler.
Rohit’s cricket journey started as an off spinner. Rohit Sharma made his debut in international cricket in 2007. Rohit, who played three matches in the ICC T20 World Cup held in the same year, scored 88 runs. After making his debut in international cricket, he was batting in the middle order for six years. He got the opportunity to play as an opener with Shikhar Dhawan for the first time in the 2013 ICC Champions Trophy. Dhoni promoted Rohit as an opener. This one decision of Dhoni because the permanent opener from this tournament.
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It is very difficult to score a double century in ODI cricket. Rohit has scored three double centuries in a row. He also has the honor of being the only batter in the world who has achieved this feat. He has also scored a double century in Test Cricket. In total, he has scored 18,820 runs in 472 matches in international cricket. It includes 48 centuries. He is the sixth highest run score in ODI cricket after Sachin Tendulkar (18426), Rahul Dravid (10768), Sourav Ganguly (11,221), Virat Kohli (13848) and MS Dhoni (10599). Rohit Sharma has received the Arjuna Award in 2015 and the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award in 2020 for his cricketing achievements.
Overall cricket performance
Rohit Sharma has played 262 ODIs so far. In this he has scored 31 centuries, 3 double centuries and 55 fifties. He scored a total of 10709 runs. He has scored 4138 runs from 59 matches in Test cricket. Includes 12 centuries, 1 double century and 17 half centuries. He has scored 151 matches, 3974 runs, 5 centuries and 29 fifties in T20. Rohit, who has done well in the IPL as well, has won the cup 5 times for the Mumbai team as a captain. he has scored 6522 runs, 2 centuries and 42 fifties from 252 IPL matches.