Rohit Sharma is one of the outstanding cricket player India ever produced. He is the finest captain of Mumbai Indians, most successful IPL player as well as a good Indian cricket player. He is a gifted , classic and an elegant cricketer and his effortless stroke is always been making his batting look so easy.
Under his able and efficient leadership Mumbai Indians team won five IPL titles. On 10th October 2020, Captain Rohit Sharma led his team from the front with a spectacular knock of 68 runs. His half-century ensured Mumbai Indians winning the final match with eight balls to spare.
He knows very well how to manage his players regardless their experience and stature in the international cricket. He is a matured player, always been calm and quite and having good decision making ability whenever he is leading either Mumbai Indians or Indian team.
Rohit Sharma lead India for Asia Cup as well as Nidahas Trophy. Altogether he captained India on 10 ODI occasions and won 8 of them.
He is a good stroke player, rarely misses the shot, cleanest hitter of the ball, helping Indian captain Virat Kohli to plan the strategy while the match is ongoing . He is widely respected cricket lovers in India and abroad. He always taking the entire team along with him and try to boost their confidence to perform in a better manner.
He is always been quite humble, funny, candid, innocent, generous, daring, fearless, dominating, blunt etc. At the same time, he is such a batsman who is capable of building a big innings in a phenomenal manner.
Over the years, Rohit Sharma enormously grown as a finest cricketer of India. Considering his vast experience in the international cricket, in future he will definitely be good captain of Indian team.
Ever since he made his debut in Twenty20 cricket international match against South Africa, he did not disappoint Indian team. During his debut match, he scored a half century that has immensely helped India to win the match against South Africa.
In the beginning he was playing as a middle order batsman and could not be able to perform as a good batsman. Ever since his batting order has been shifted from middle order to top order he started delivering with the bat in an enormous manner. Within a short period he has become one of the best batsmen of Indian team. Since then once he settled in the crease, he is more dangerous than any other batsman in the world. He is posses sheer amount of power once he settles in the crease in considerable period.
Though Rohit Sharma plays limited over matches in a better manner but he failed in staying in the crease quite long time while playing the test matches. That is the reason Indian cricket team management is seldom considering Rohit Sharma in the national test cricket team.
Rohit Sharma got a tremendous ability to accelerate the innings that was his key success in scoring three double century in one day International cricket. He is the only cricketer who scored three double century in ODI cricket. Rohit Sharma currently holds the record of taking highest individual score (264 runs) in One Day International.
He is also one of the few Indian cricket players who scored century in all the cricket format such as Twenty20, ODI and Test Cricket. He is also an excellent fielder regardless his position in the field.
Ever since former Indian Batsman Virender Sehwag departed from Indian team, Indian team was desperately trying for getting a solid opener who supposed to fill the vacuum of Sehwag. Fortunately India got a talented batsman and a good leader like Rohit Sharma in place of Sewagh. He is a master in performing very well under pressure, circumstances and the conditions of the pitch.
Rohit Sharma’s single main issue is his consistency . He got outstanding capability in scoring big hundreds and play match winning knocks. He is often taking little longer time to take 50 runs, but once he gets settled in batting he is literally unstoppable.
The entire cricket world is still remembering the day (on 2nd November, 2013) Rohit Sharma smashed 16 sixes in an innings against Australia and scored his maiden double century in ODIs. Considering his batting talent displayed in ODIs and Twenty20 international matches, he is now being considered as one of the most talented players in the world.
Please find below some of his magical batting performance throughout his international cricket career:-
50 off first 72 balls
100 off 100 balls (50 runs in 28 balls )
151 off 125 balls (51 runs of 25 balls)
201 off 151 balls (51 runs of 26 balls)
250 off 166 balls(49 runs of 16 balls)
264 off 173 balls .
Timing and placement is highly important and the integral part of the cricket matches. At present seldom cricket players are in the world who can time the ball better than Rohit Sharma. He is a destructive opener, having excellent leadership skill and he got a tendency to adapt to the situation and act wisely.
