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Rohit Sharma (born 30 April 1987) is an Indian cricketer and the captain of national cricket team in Test and ODI formats. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest opening batters of all time. He is also known as one of the greatest six hitters in cricket history. He is a right-handed batsman who plays for Mumbai Indians in Indian Premier League and for Mumbai in domestic cricket. Rohit previously captained India in all three formats. After leading the victory at the 2024 Men's T20 World Cup, he announced his retirement from T20Is.

He holds several batting records which famously include most runs in T20 Internationals, most sixes in international cricket,[a] most double centuries in ODI cricket (3), most centuries at Cricket World Cups (7) and joint most hundreds in Twenty20 Internationals (5). He is the first player to score 5 T20I centuries,and holds record of hitting fastest T20I century in 35 balls.  He also holds the world record for the highest individual score (264) in a One Day International (ODI) match and is the only player to have scored three double-centuries in ODIs 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 only player to win 50 matches as captain in T20Is. He is the first and only captain to lead a team in all[b] ICC tournament finals.

He plays for Mumbai Indians and Mumbai cricket team in Indian Premier League (IPL) and domestic cricket respectively. He formerly captained Mumbai Indians and the team has won 5 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. With India, Rohit Sharma was a member of the team that won the 2007 T20 World Cup, and the 2013 ICC Champions Trophy, where he played in the finals of both tournaments. He is also one of two players who have played in every edition of the T20 World Cup, from the inaugural edition in 2007 to the latest one in 2024.[c] He is the only Indian player to win two T20 World Cups. He became the second Indian captain to win a T20 World Cup, when he led India to win the 2024 T20 World Cup.

He has received two national honours, the Arjuna Award in 2015 and the prestigious Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award in 2020 by the Government of India. 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.

Sharma scored the highest-ever individual score in a One Day International match, with a 264 against Sri Lanka at the Eden Gardens, Kolkata on 13 November 2014. He is the only player to have scored three double-centuries in ODIs. In January 2020, Sharma was named as the ODI Player of the Year by the International Cricket Council (ICC). In 2019, Sharma became the only batsman to scored five centuries in a single edition of the Cricket World Cup.

On 5 October 2019, during a Test match against South Africa, Sharma became the first batsman to score two centuries in a match on his first appearance as an opening batsman. In the same series, he broke Shimron Hetmyer's record for the highest number of sixes in a Test series.

On 11 October 2023, Sharma achieved a historic feat during the 2023 Cricket World Cup match against Afghanistan team, when he surpassed the record previously held by Chris Gayle for the most international sixes (553).

On 14 October 2023, Sharma achieved a milestone in the world of cricket by becoming the first Indian to complete 300 sixes in the 50-overs format. This feat occurred during an India-Pakistan match at Narendra Modi Stadium, in front of more than 100,000 fans.

During a 22 October 2023 match against New Zealand, Sharma became the first Indian batter to hit 50 One Day International (ODI) sixes in a calendar year.

On 2 August 2024, Sharma surpassed Eoin Morgan to have hit most sixes in international cricket as captain.

Sharma's 19 Player of the Match awards is the highest by an indian in IPL history.

National honours

Sharma receiving Arjuna award

2015 – Arjuna Award

2020 – Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna

Sporting honours

ICC Men's ODI Cricketer of the Year: 2019

ICC Men's ODI Team of the Year: 2014 (12th man), 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2023(captain)

ICC Men's ODI Team of the Decade: 2011–2020

ICC Men's T20I Team of the Decade: 2011–2020

ICC Men's Test Team of the Year: 2021

For his achievements on India's tour of England in 2021, Sharma was selected by Wisden Cricketers' Almanack as one of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Year in its 2022 edition.

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