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My Take
Rohit Sharma interests me as a study in patient greatness. He reinvented himself as an opener and became one of the most destructive top-order batters the modern game has seen, then took on the heaviest job in sport: captaining India in every format, with a billion opinions weighing on every dismissal. What I respect most is the calm. The Arjuna Award and the Khel Ratna only formalize what fans already knew, that he turned elegance into relentless output. From Nagpur to the summit of world cricket, his career argues that timing and temperament matter just as much as raw gift, and I find that genuinely instructive.
Overview
Rohit Gurunath Sharma (born 30 April 1987) is an Indian international cricketer and the former captain of the India national cricket team in all formats of the game. He is a right-handed top-order batter. He represents Mumbai in domestic cricket and Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Rohit Sharma
- Name (Japanese)
- ロヒット・シャルマ
- Reading
- ろひっと・しゃるま
- Born
- April 30, 1987 (age 39)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Taurus / Rabbit
- Origin
- Nagpur, Nagpur district, India
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- 6 cm
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- cricketer
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Our Lady of Vailankanni High School
- University
- Swami Vivekanand International School and Junior College
Awards & achievements
- 2015 Arjuna Award
- 2020 Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award in Sports and Games
- 2022 Wisden Cricketer of the Year
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-11
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.