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ROHIT SHARMA:THE HITMAN OF CRICKET WORLD

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Rohit GurunathSharma born on 30 April 1987, is an Indian international cricketer and
the current captain of India men’s cricket team in all formats.

With the help of his uncle's money, Sharma attended a cricket camp in 1999. In order
to play cricket at Swami Vivekanand International School, where Dinesh Lad was the
coach and the facilities were superior to those at Sharma's previous school.Sharma
was asked to switch schools by Lad, his camp coach, who said that he would be his
new coach there.

Sharma made his List A debut for West Zone against Central Zone in the Deodhar
Trophy at Gwalior in March 2005. Batting at number eight, he scored 31 not out as
West Zone won by 3 wickets with 24 balls left. CheteshwarPujara and
RavindraJadeja made their debut in the same match.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.
Source-herald sun Soucre-hindustan times
Rohit , who hit 264 against Sri Lanka on November 13, 2014, at Eden Gardens in
Kolkata, holds the record for the highest individual score by a batsman
participating in a one-day international match.He is the only player in this style of
international cricket to have scored three double century. Sharma was selected the
ODI Player of the Year by the International Cricket Council (ICC) in January
2020. Sharma made history in the 2019 World Cup by being the first batsman to
achieve five hundreds in a single Cricket World cup

SOUCRE-Sportskeeda
Rohit was bought by the Deccan Chargers franchise, based in Hyderabad, for the sum
of US$750,000 a year. In the 2011 auction, he was sold for US$2 million to the
Mumbai Indians. He scored his only IPL century in the 2012 tournament with 109
against the Kolkata Knight Riders. Under his leadership, Mumbai has won the IPL in
2013, 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2020; they also won the former Champions League
Twenty20 competition in 2013 and for this brilliant record rohit is considered as the
best captain in the Indian premier league.
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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 KhelRatna Award in 2020.

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