International careerįurther information: List of international cricket centuries by Rohit Sharma Test matches In October 2013, upon the retirement of Ajit Agarkar, he was appointed team captain ahead of the 2013–14 season. In December 2009, he made his highest career score of 309 not out in the Ranji Trophy against Gujarat. Sharma has spent his entire domestic first-class career at Mumbai. Mumbai went on to win the tournament with Sharma scoring a half-century (57) in his second innings in the final against Bengal. He made his Ranji Trophy debut for Mumbai in the 2006–07 season and scored 205 off 267 balls against Gujarat. He scored 57 and 22 as India won by 3 wickets. Sharma made his first-class debut for India A against New Zealand A at Darwin in July 2006. He visited Abu Dhabi and Australia with the India A squad and was then included among India's 30-member probables list for the upcoming ICC Champions Trophy tournament, although he did not make the final squad. It was Sharma's unbeaten innings of 142 in 123 balls against North Zone at the Maharanna Bhupal College Ground in Udaipur in the same tournament that brought him into the limelight. Cheteshwar Pujara and Ravindra Jadeja made their debuts in the same match. Batting at number eight, he scored 31 not out as West Zone won by 3 wickets with 24 balls remaining. Sharma made his List A debut for West Zone against Central Zone in the Deodhar Trophy at Gwalior in March 2005. He excelled in the Harris and Giles Shield school cricket tournaments, scoring a century on debut as an opener. Sharma started as an off-spinner who could bat a bit before Lad noticed his batting ability and promoted him from number eight to open the innings. So for four years I didn't pay a penny, and did well in my cricket". Sharma recollects, "I told him I couldn't afford it, but he got me a scholarship. 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 joined a cricket camp in 1999 with his uncle's money.
He would visit his parents, who lived in a single-room house in Dombivli, only during weekends. Sharma was raised by his grandparents and uncles in Borivali because of his father's low income. His father, Gurunath Sharma, worked as a caretaker of a transport firm storehouse. His mother, Purnima Sharma, is from Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. Sharma was born on 30 April 1987 in Bansod, Nagpur, Maharashtra. He has worked with PETA in its campaign to raise awareness of the plight of homeless cats and dogs in India. He is the official Rhino Ambassador for WWF-India and is a member of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). Outside cricket, Sharma is an active supporter of animal welfare campaigns. 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 has received two national honours, the Arjuna Award in 2015 and the prestigious Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna in 2020. 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 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. 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. Rohit also captains Mumbai Indians and the team has won 5 titles under his leadership. He plays as a right-handed batsman for India national cricket team in international cricket, Mumbai Indians in IPL and for Mumbai in domestic cricket. Considered one of the best batsmen of his generation and one of greatest opening batters of all time, Sharma is known for his timing, elegance, six-hitting abilities and leadership skills. Rohit Gurunath Sharma (born 30 April 1987), is an Indian international cricketer and the current captain of India men’s cricket team in all formats.
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