Interesting Facts About Rohit Sharma: Records, Stats and Career (2026)

Published: May 18, 2024, 10:08 AM IST | Updated: October 28, 2026, 12:22 AM IST
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20 Interesting Facts About Rohit Sharma

1. Born in Nagpur: Rohit was born in Bansod, Nagpur, on 30 April 1987, and grew up in Mumbai, where he plays domestic cricket. His mother is from Visakhapatnam.
2. Started as an off-spinner: he began as a bowler who could bat, and his coach Dinesh Lad moved him up the order after spotting his batting talent.
3. IPL hat-trick: he took a hat-trick for Deccan Chargers against Mumbai Indians in 2009, the year he won his first IPL title.
4. The opening move: MS Dhoni made him an ODI opener at the 2013 Champions Trophy, which India won, and his career took off from there.
5. Three ODI double hundreds: 209 v Australia (2013), a world-record 264 v Sri Lanka (2014) and 208* v Sri Lanka (2017). No one else has more than two.
6. Highest ODI score: his 264 at Eden Gardens in 2014 is still the highest individual score in ODIs. See the 400+ totals it helped set up.
7. Test debut hundred: he scored 177 on Test debut against West Indies at Eden Gardens in 2013.
8. Hundreds in all three formats: he was the first Indian to score centuries in Tests, ODIs and T20Is, and has five T20I hundreds.
9. Five hundreds at one World Cup: his five centuries at the 2019 World Cup are a tournament record.
10. Most ODI sixes: he passed Shahid Afridi’s 351 in November 2025 and has a record 381 ODI sixes.
11. Most international sixes: more than 670 across all formats, the most in history.
12. 200 sixes in one country: in September 2026 he became the first batter to hit 200 ODI sixes in a single country (India).
13. 100 sixes against two teams: he has over 100 international sixes against both Australia and West Indies, the only player to do so against two teams.
14. 12,000 ODI runs: he reached the mark against West Indies in Guwahati in September 2026, with a 75-ball 101, his 35th ODI hundred.
15. Five IPL titles as captain: he led Mumbai Indians to the title in 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2020, a joint record with MS Dhoni. See the IPL winners list.
16. India captain: he took over the white-ball captaincy in late 2021 and the Test captaincy in February 2022, and led India to the 2023 World Cup final.
17. T20 World Cup winner: he captained India to the 2024 T20 World Cup in Barbados and retired from T20Is straight afterwards with 4,231 runs.
18. Champions Trophy winner: he was Player of the Match with 76 in the 2025 final against New Zealand in Dubai.
19. Test retirement: he retired from Test cricket in May 2025 with 4,301 runs and 12 hundreds. Shubman Gill succeeded him as Test and later ODI captain.
20. Awards and nickname: known as the “Hitman”, he wears shirt No. 45, received the Arjuna Award in 2015 and the Khel Ratna in 2020.

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