The Rise Of Rohit Sharma
So lets take a quick dig today on his great journey towards the Legends game CRICKET.
Also its always enjoyable watching him strike the ball over the covers.🏏 RIGHT? Anyway Lets begin
Lets us start this by talking about his early life struggle:
His father worked as a caretaker of a transport firm storehouse. And like how in most of the movies they show struggle by showing low income family background, Rohit's father too had very low income. So guess what? Rohit was raised by his grandparents and uncles in Borivali(Mumbai) [even I was born there.Out of the topic. SORRY😅]. So anyways, Sharma would visit his parents only during weekends who lived in single room house.His cricketing journey began when he joined a cricket camp in 1999 with help of his Uncle's money. His coach at the camp was Dinesh Lad. Heard Lad somewhere? Yes, he is the father of Siddhesh Lad who plays for Mumbai in domestic cricket.
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| Rohit With his childhood coach |
Rohit recollects, "I told him I could'nt afford it, but he got me scholarship. So for 4 years I didnt pay a penny and did well in my cricket."
[Siddhesh should be proud of his father.]
Here's something only few people knows, Rohit started cricket as an off spinner who could bat a bit. But then Lad noticed his batting ability and promoted him from number 8 to open the innings.(Phew, thank God he noticed)
Rohit is the guy who seizes every opportunity he gets and so on a debut as an opener he scored a century in Harris and Giles Shield school cricket tournament.
Lets talk About his Debuts:
Domestic Career
Rohit Sharma made his List A debut for West Zone against Central Zone in the Deodhar Trophy in March 2005. He came to bat at number 8 scoring 31* off 47 balls to help West Zone win by 3 wickets.
Riding on high confidence, Sharma scored 142* off 123 balls against North Zone in the same tournament. This performance of Sharma caught eyes of selectors for the first time.
Based on his performances, Sharma was called up for India A’s visit to Abu Dubai and Australia. He was also included in the 30-member probable list for the ICC Champions Trophy.
Sharma scored 57 and 22 during his first-class debut for India A against New Zealand A in July 2006. He made his Ranji Trophy debut with Mumbai in the 2006-07 season. After a rusty start, Sharma scored 205 against Gujrat and 57 against Bengal in the finals to help Mumbai lift the Ranji trophy.Beginning of ODI Career:
Rohit Sharma received his first ODI call-up against Ireland on 23 June 2007. Although he did not get to bat, India won the match by 8 wickets.At this point of time, Rohit Sharma used to bat in the middle-order.When he finally got a chance bat against South Africa, Sharma was unable to play well as he got out at 8.
Sharma scored his 1st half-century against Pakistan in November 2007 followed by a 39* against Australia and 70* against Sri Lanka in February 2008. His triple century in Ranji in 2009 ensured he returned to the ODI squad in 2010.
This time Sharma took his chance as he scored his first ODI century (114) against Zimbabwe followed by another century against Sri Lanka (101*).
When and how he finally played as an opener?
Sharma scored 177 runs in 5 innings at an average of 35.40 with two half-centuries, as India went on to lift its second Champions Trophy.
The next year, Rohit scored 264 against Sri Lanka at the Eden Gardens, and in doing so surpassed Virender Sehwag’s 219 to become the highest-scoring batsman in an ODI. The record still stands, as nobody has been able to cross it.💓
By 2015 ICC World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, Rohit Sharma and Shikar Dhawan were the Men in Blue’s newest openers. The duo have opened for India in 105 innings, scoring 4708 runs at an average of 45.26.
The achieved personal highest opening partnership of 210 runs was achieved against Pakistan in the Asia Cup 2018.
Leading out as Captain of Indian Team
In 2017, Rohit Sharma was named the Indian captain for the first time in his career. India won the ODI series 2-1 under his leadership. He again led India in the 2018 Asia Cup after Virat Kohli was rested after the England tour. India won the tournament after beating Bangladesh in the final.(Remember those Naagin Dance?)
The hitman finished as the batsman with the most ODI runs in 2019. He scored 1490 runs in 27 innings with an average of 57.30 and strike rate of 89.92.
Test Career Entry
Rohit Sharma has performed decently when called upon despite not being the first choice openers for India in test cricket. He made his entry into the Indian test team relatively late.
He scored 177 on his debut against West Indies to join a small group of Indians to score a century on his debut.
Sharma went on to score 111* at the Wankhede and became the third Indian to score consecutive centuries in the first two tests. Only Sourav Ganguly (1996) and Mohammad Azharuddin (1984) achieved the feat before this.
His high score of 212 runs came against South Africa in October 2019. After the innings, David Warner said that he believes that Rohit Sharma could be the one to break Brian Lara’s 400* record.
T20 Career Entry
Rohit made his T20 debut for India against England in 2007 ICC World T20 Championships but did not get an opportunity to bat. However, he did get an opportunity against South Africa in his second match and took it with both hands.
Rohit played and scored an unbeaten 50 as India won by 37 runs. In the semi-finals against Australia, Sharma made a small cameo at the end of the innings and scored 8* off 5 balls as India won by 15 runs.
In the finals, Rohit made another late cameo and made a crucial contribution of 30* from 15 balls. India won the final by 5 runs. In 2007, Sharma was used predominately as a middle-order batsman coming at number 7 or 8.
However, under MS Dhoni’s captainship, he has promoted up the order to open the innings. This change affected not only his T20 career but ODI career as well.
Sharma shares the honour with his fellow teammate and captain Virat Kohli. While their race to the top spot will be the talk of the town, Rohit can be relieved with the fact that he is the only player to hit four T20 international centuries while also leading the list of the batsmen with most sixes in T20.
And You all know about his IPL career so won't go deep into that.
Rohit Sharma is the most successful captain in the Indian Premier League. He has won the IPL trophy four times, three times as the captain of the Mumbai Indians.(Well I am a Mumbai Indians supporter😬)
Rohit Sharma's Records
- Sharma holds the highest individual score of 264 in the ODIs.
- Rohit Sharma has scored 28 centuries in ODIs. Only two Indians ahead of him are Sachin Tendulkar and Virat Kohli.
- He is the only batsmen to score 5 centuries in the 2019 ICC Cricket World Cup.
- Rohit holds the unique record of scoring a century with a six in all three formats.
- Sharma has hit the highest number of fours (33) in an ODI match.
- He has broken the record of most runs from fours and sixes in an ODI. He has scored 186 runs via boundaries. Earlier this record was held by Shane Watson.
- Rohit holds the second-highest number of sixes in an ODI- 16.
- Sharma is the only player to score 8 150 plus scores in ODI.
- He is the second-fastest opener in the world as well as the fastest Indian opener to reach 4,000 ODI runs. He took 83 innings.
- Rohit Sharma is the second-fastest opener in the world as well as the fastest Indian opener to reach 5000 ODI runs. He took 102 innings.
- Rohit is the 2nd player to hit 3 consecutive centuries in a World Cup.
- He, along with Sachin holds the records for most centuries in the World Cup- 6.
- Sharma is the joint highest T20I run-scorer- 8944.
- Rohit is the only player to have scored 4 T20I centuries.
- Sharma has hit the most sixes in T20’s- 120.
- He is the 2nd Indian after Suresh Raina to have scored at least a century in all 3 international formats.
- Rohit Sharma is the only Indian to score a T20I century as a captain.
- He also holds the record for having the most number of half-centuries among openers in T20- 19.
- Rohit scored 2442 runs in International cricket in 2019. He went past Sanath Jayasuriya’s 2387 runs for Sri Lanka in 1997.
- He is the second player overall and first Indian to feature in 100 T20 internationals.
- Third Indian to score Two consecutive centuries in his first two test matches.
Nothing more left to say. You all know him as HitMan . Just one final thing. Rohit and his wife Ritika make a very cute couple💓😉
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