Friday, January 31, 2020



Rohit Gurunath Sharma (born 30 April 1987) is an Indian international cricketer who plays for Mumbai in domestic cricket and captains Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League as a right-handed batsman and an occasional right-arm off break bowler. He is the vice-captain of the Indian national team in limited-overs formats. He is the only cricketer in the history of cricket to score more than one ODI double-hundred, having scored three of them. In January 2020, Sharma was named as the ODI Cricketer of the Year by the International Cricket Council (ICC).[5]


Born: 30 April 1987 (age 32 years), Nagpur
ODI debut (cap 168): 23 June 2007 v Ireland
Last ODI: 19 January 2020 v Australia
Test debut (cap 280): 6 November 2013 v West Indies
T20I debut (cap 17): 19 September 2007 v England
Spouse: Ritika Sajdeh (m. 2015)

Rohit Sharma stats

Batsman
Career Batting Stats
Right-Handed Batsman
Format
M
Inn
NO
Runs
HS
Avg
BF
BF
SR
100s
50s
Test
2013–
32
53
7
2141
212
46.5
3613
255
59.2
6
10
ODI
2007–
224
217
32
9115
264
49.3
10250
173
88.9
29
43
T20I
2007–
107
99
14
2713
118
31.9
1957
43
138.6
4
20
1st class
2006–
92
143
16
7118
309*
56.0
11219
322
63.5
23
30
List A
2006–
295
284
40
11357
264
46.5
12836
173
88.5
32
56
T20
2007–
327
314
46
8582
118
32.0
6422
43
133.6
6
59
Career Bowling Stats
Right-Arm Off Spin Bowler
Format
M
Inn
B
Mdn
Runs
W
BB
Econ
Avg
SR
4W
5W
Test
2013–
32
14
370
5
216
2
1/26
3.50
108.0
185.0
0
0
ODI
2007–
224
38
593
2
515
8
2/27
5.21
64.4
74.1
0
0
T20I
2007–
107
9
68
0
113
1
1/22
9.97
113.0
68.0
0
0
1st class
2006–
92
68
2140
48
1146
24
4/41
3.21
47.8
89.2
1
0
List A
2006–
295
70
1367
5
1162
30
4/28
5.10
38.7
45.6
1
0
T20
2007–
327
57
628
0
817
29
4/6
7.81
28.2
21.7
1
0
Career Fielding Stats
Format
Catches
Run Outs
Stumpings
Test
2013–
31
1
0
ODI
2007–
77
14
0
T20I
2007–
40
5
0
1st class
2006–
75
5
0
List A
2006–
101
19
0
T20
2007–
131
16
0


Indian Premier League

Sharma has been one of the most successful players in the Indian Premier League (IPL) as captain since 2013 of the Mumbai Indians, who have won the tournament four times under his leadership.[64] He is currently (July 2019) one of ten players who have scored 4,000 career runs in the competition. Sharma has 4,898 with one century and is the third highest run scorer after Virat Kohli and Suresh Raina.[65]
Sharma joined the IPL in 2008 when he was signed by the Deccan Chargers franchise, based in Hyderabad, for the sum of US$750,000 a year.[66] In the 2011 auction, he was sold for US$2 million to the Mumbai Indians.[67] He scored his only IPL century in the 2012 tournament with 109 (not out) against the Kolkata Knight Riders.[68] Under his leadership, Mumbai have won the IPL in 2013, 2015, 2017 and 2019; they also won the former Champions League Twenty20 competition in 2013.[64]

International centuries

As of 20 January 2020, Sharma has scored 39 international centuries: 6 in Test cricket, 29 in one-day internationals and 4 in Twenty20 internationals. Sharma is also ranked joint 17th among players with the most centuries in international cricket.[a]