Rohit Sharma: Difference between revisions

{{Short description|Indian cricketer}}

| lastodidate        = 11 October

| lastodiagainst    = Afghanistan

| matches2          = 253

| runs1              = 3,677

| runs2              = 10,243

| bat avg2          = 49.00

| 100s/50s2          = 31/52

</ref> Sharma is known for his timing, elegance, six-hitting abilities and leadership skills. He plays as a right-handed [[batsman]] for [[India national cricket team]] in [[international cricket]], [[Mumbai Indians]] in [[Indian Premier League|IPL]] and for [[Mumbai cricket team|Mumbai]] in domestic cricket. Rohit also captains [[Mumbai Indians]] and the team has won 5 titles under his leadership. With India, 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.

Sharma currently 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 [[century (cricket)|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. Sharma has received two national honours, the [[Arjuna Award]] in 2015 and the prestigious [[Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna]] in 2020. 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 was born on 30 April 1987 in Bansod, [[Nagpur]], [[Maharashtra]] into a [[Telugu people|Telugu]]-[[Marathi people|Marathi]] family.<ref name="CI34102">{{cite web |url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/india/content/player/34102.html |title=Rohit Sharma |work=Cricinfo |publisher=ESPN Sports Media Ltd |access-date=31 July 2019}}</ref> His mother, Purnima Sharma, is from [[Visakhapatnam]], [[Andhra Pradesh]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-andhrapradesh/telugu-connection-to-twenty20-world-cup/article1916899.ece |title=Telugu connection to Twenty20 World Cup |newspaper=The Hindu |publisher=THG Publishing |date=24 September 2007 |access-date=4 August 2019}}</ref> His father, Gurunath Sharma, worked as a caretaker of a transport firm storehouse. Sharma was raised by his grandparents and uncles in [[Borivali]] because of his father's low income. He would visit his parents, who lived in a single-room house in [[Dombivli]], only during weekends.<ref name="promise">{{cite web |url=http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/rohit-s-kept-his-promise/276142/0 |title=Rohit's kept his promise |work=The Indian Express |date=23 February 2008 |access-date=4 August 2019}}</ref> He has a younger brother, Vishal Sharma.<ref name="attra">{{cite web |date=27 February 2008 |title=Forthcoming attraction |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/forthcoming-attraction-339913 |access-date=4 August 2019 |work=Cricinfo |publisher=ESPN Sports Media Ltd}}</ref>

Sharma joined a cricket camp in 1999 with his uncle's money. Dinesh Lad, his coach at the camp, asked him to change his school to Swami Vivekanand International School, where Lad was the coach and the cricket facilities were better than those at Sharma’s old school. Sharma recollects, "I told him I couldn't afford it, but he got me a scholarship. So for four years I didn't pay a penny, and did well in my cricket".<ref name="attra" /> Sharma started as an [[off spinner|off-spinner]] who could bat a bit before Lad noticed his batting ability and promoted him from number eight to [[opening batsman|open]] the innings. He excelled in the Harris and Giles Shield school cricket tournaments, scoring a [[century (cricket)|century]] on debut as an opener.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.abplive.in/sports/the-untold-story-of-rohit-sharma-104963 |title=The untold story of Rohit Sharma |publisher=ABP Live |date=2017 |access-date=4 August 2019}}</ref>

In 2018 on "World Rhino Day", Sharma was announced as the [[WWF-India]] Rhino Ambassador. Ravi Singh, the CEO and Secretary General of WWF-India, said "We welcome Rohit into the WWF family". After taking a pledge for the cause of rhino conservation, Sharma said, "My love for rhinos sparked when I first heard about Sudan, the last male northern white African rhino who died this year thus leading to the inevitable extinction of the entire species and that broke my heart. As the world and I mourned for my fallen friend Sudan, I researched the best way for me to help prevent something like this happening and the best way I know how is to create awareness. After getting in touch with WWF I learnt that 82% of the world’s rhinos reside in India and I am honoured to be WWF-India’s rhino ambassador to spread awareness and do my bit to contribute to the protection and survival of the rhino and help make this world a better place for them."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.wwfindia.org/?17741/The-Indian-Batsman-announced-as-WWF-Indias-Rhino-Ambassador-this-World-Rhino-Day |title=The Indian Batsman announced as WWF-India's Rhino Ambassador this World Rhino Day |work=WWF-INDIA |publisher=World Wildlife Fund |date=22 September 2018 |access-date=4 August 2019}}</ref>

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