Rohit Gurunath Sharma was born on 30 April 1987 in Bansod, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India.His mother, Purnima Sharma, is from Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh.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.He has a younger brother, Vishal Sharma.
Sharma married his longtime girlfriend, Ritika Sajdeh on 13 December 2015.They have one child, a girl born in 2018.She is a practitioner of themeditation technique Sahaj Marg.

International Debut

ODI - 23 June 2007 against Ireland at Belfast

Test - 6 November 2013 against West Indies at Kolkata

T20 - 19 September 2007 against England at Durban

Rohit Sharma Records, Awards and Achievements

Rohit has a unique record of reaching a century with a six in all three formats.

ODI

👉The highest individual score of Rohit Sharma is 264 in the ODI. This is the highest individual score by a player in ODI format so far.

👉Rohit Sharma is the only batsman to score 3 double centuries in the one-day international matches.

👉Rohit has the record of scoring the highest number of fours (33) in an ODI inning.

👉Rohit has the second-highest number of sixes, 16 (after Eoin Morgan, 17), in ODI innings.

👉He is the fastest Indian opener (83 innings) and the second-fastest opener (behind Hashim Amla) in the world to score 4000 ODI runs.

👉He is the fastest Indian opener and the second-fastest opener in the world to touch 5000 ODI runs. Rohit took 102 innings to do so while Hashim Amla achieved this feat in just 100 innings

👉Rohit Sharma is the only batsman who scored 8 innings of 150+ in ODIs breaking the records of David Warner and Sachin Tendulkar.

👉He is the third-highest century Scorer (31) Indian in the ODIs after the Sachin and Virat Kohli. Sachin and Kohli have scored 49 and 50 centuries respectively in the ODIs.

👉He is the only batsman in the 12th edition of the Cricket World Cup who has scored 5 centuries.

👉He is declared the ODI player of the year 2019 by the ICC.

👉Rohit Sharma holds a total of 21 “Player Of Match Awards” in ODI.

T20I

👉Rohit Sharma is the second leading run-getter for India in T20 Internationals.

👉Sharma is the highest run-scorer Indian player (118 runs) in the T-20I format.

👉Rohit is the second Indian after Suresh Raina to have scored at least a century in each of the three forms of International Cricket.

👉Rohit Sharma is the only Indian to score a T20I century as a captain. While Virat Kohli still struggles to secure a century in the T20I format.

👉He has the record of most number of sixes (i.e. 133 – as of April 2021) by an Indian batsman in T20Is format.

👉He became the first and the only batsman in the world to score four T20I centuries.

👉Rohit Sharma becomes the third player to score 3000 runs in the T20I format just behind Virat Kohli and Martin Guptill.

TEST

👉It was the same series when Sachin Tendulkar retired. Sharma made his Test debut at Eden Gardens in Kolkata. He scored 177 on his debut match.

👉Rohit holds the second-best score on debut by an Indian — behind Shikhar Dhawan.

👉Sharma became the first Indian to score two centuries in his first Test as an opener, having slammed 176 and 127.

👉His high score of 212 runs came against South Africa in October 2019.

👉Sharma becomes the third Indian cricketer to score back-to-back centuries in the first two tests – a feat achieved earlier by Sourav Ganguly in 1996 in England and Mohammad Azharuddin in 1984.

👉Rohit Sharma scored his 1st outside India hundred against England on September 4, 2021, which is eventually his 8th overall Test hundred.

IPL

👉Rohit Sharma is currently (March 2021) one of four players who have scored 5,000 career runs in the competition.

👉Rohit is considered as one of the most successful skippers as he bags 5 IPL trophies for Mumbai Indians.

👉Rohit has more 400-plus run seasons for MI than any other batsman. Five times he has breached the barrier – scoring 433 runs in 2012, 538 runs in 2013, 482 in 2015 and 405 in 2019.

👉Overall, Rohit has seven 400-plus run seasons in the history of IPL, second only to Suresh Raina.

👉Rohit’s tally of 28 half-centuries is the most by a MI player.

👉Besides his record in batting, Rohit Sharma has been a pretty good fielder for MI. Rohit skipper holds the record for the most number of catches taken in an innings. Rohit has so far taken 89 catches as a fielder in IPL. He will have a chance to go past Kieron Pollard (90) in this list and become the most successful fielder among Mumbai players.

👉Rohit Sharma is the only Indian cricketer in the IPL to have scored a hundred and taken a hat-trick in the league. Notably, Rohit claimed his maiden IPL hat-trick against his current team Mumbai Indians while playing for Deccan Chargers in IPL 2009.

Awards and Accolades

👉Rohit Sharma was honoured with the ‘Arjuna Award’ in 2015.

👉2015 – GQ award for Sportsman of the Year.

👉Name included in ICC ODI Team of the Year: 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019.

👉ICC ODI Player of the Year – 2019.

👉Awarded the Golden Bat award for scoring the most number of runs in ICC Cricket World Cup 2019.

👉Rohit Sharma won the Sportsman of the year award from Indian Sports Honours. (Year – 2019).

👉Rohit Sharma was awarded the highest sports honor of the country, the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award in 2020.