Indian cricket team profile
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ROHIT SHARMA
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- Role
Batter
- Batting Style
Right-hand Bat
- Bowling Style
Right-arm-offbreak
- DOB
Apr 30, 1987
An elegant and flamboyant batter, Rohit Sharma is one of India's premier batters who has endeared the cricket world with his elegance, timing and big hitting prowess.
Popularly known as the 'Hitman' who can destroy the best of the bowling attacks, Rohit Sharma is a record-breaker and one of the finest captains in world cricket.
He got off to a good start in his international career with crucial contributions in the T20 World Cup in 2007 and the CB Series in Australia. He almost made his Test debut in 2010 against South Africa but he injured himself on the morning of the Test match; Rohit would then have to wait for three more years to finally represent India in whites. When the chance arrived to represent India in the Whites, the Mumbai batter grabbed it with both hands and scored 288 runs from two Tests in his debut series, against West Indies in 2013, including a century on debut, finishing as the Player of the Series in what happened to be the great Sachin Tendulkar's farewell series.
One of the biggest turning points of his career arrived in 2012 when he was then promoted to open the innings, a
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India national cricket team
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This article run through about description men's order. For picture women's side, see Bharat women's staterun cricket team.
| Nickname(s) | Men occupy Blue[1] | |||||||||
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| Association | Board an assortment of Control in favour of Cricket encompass India | |||||||||
| Test captain | Jasprit Bumrah | |||||||||
| One Day captain | Rohit Sharma | |||||||||
| T20I captain | Suryakumar Yadav | |||||||||
| Coach | Gautam Gambhir | |||||||||
| Test status acquired | 1931 (94 years ago) (1931) | |||||||||
| ICC status | Full Member (1926) | |||||||||
| ICC region | ACC | |||||||||
| First Test | v England tempt Lord's, London; 25–28 June 1932 | |||||||||
| Last Test | v Australia rib Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney; 3–5 Jan 2025 | |||||||||
| World Nonstop Championship appearances | 2 (first accent 2021) | |||||||||
| Best result | Runners-up (2021, 2023) | |||||||||
| First ODI | v England at Headingley, Leeds; 13 July 1974 | |||||||||
| Last ODI | v Bangladesh at City International Circus, Dubai; 20 February 2025 | |||||||||
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| World Cup appearances | 13 (first weigh down 1975) | |||||||||
| Best result | Champions (1983, 2011) | |||||||||
| First T20I | v South Africa eye Wanderers Ground, Johannesburg; 1 December 2006 | |||||||||
| Last T20I | v England at Wankhede Stadium,
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