Name	Rohit Gurunath Sharma
Height
Naionality	Indian
Date of Birth	30 April 1987
Place of Birth	Nagpur, Maharashtra, India
Famous for	Cricket

Rohit Gurunath Sharma (born 30 April 1987) is an Indian cricketer. Having started his international playing career at the age of 20, Sharma quickly exhibited his athletic fielding and cool temperament to compliment his graceful strokeplay. Sharma completed his primary education at Our Lady Of Vailankanni High School, Mumbai. List A Sharma made his List A debut for West Zone against Central Zone in the Deodhar Trophy in March 2006, at Gwalior. Sharma made his First-class debut for India A against New Zealand A, at Darwin in July 2006. Though he was unable to contribute much in the initial matches, he scored 205 off 267 balls in the match against Gujarat. Mumbai went on to win the tournament with Sharma scoring a 50 in the final against Bengal. International Sharma was first selected for the limited-overs matches on India's tour to Ireland in 2007. He made his One Day International debut against Ireland at Belfast,although he did not bat in the match. Sharma eventually made his mark at the international stage on 20 September 2007, when he led India to victory by scoring an unbeaten 50 (which came off 40 deliveries) against South Africa in the 2007 ICC World Twenty20. Sharma then proceeded to score 30 runs off 16 balls in the final against Pakistan.

Sharma scored his maiden ODI half-century against Pakistan, at Jaipur on 18 November 2007 and was selected as part of India's 16-man squad for the CB series in Australia. Here, he scored 235 runs at an average of 33.57 with 2 fifties, including his score of 66 in the 1st final at Sydney partnering Sachin Tendulkar for most of India's successful runchase. However, Sharma's ODI performances suffered a downturn after this and his middle-order position was taken over by Suresh Raina, and eventually, Virat Kohli took his position as the reserve batsman. In December 2009, Sharma scored a triple century in the Ranji Trophy and was recalled to the ODI team for the tri-nations tournament in Bangladesh as Tendulkar was being rested. However, Kohli and Raina were selected ahead of him in the playing eleven, and he did not play in any of India's five matches.

He scored his maiden ODI century (114) against Zimbabwe on May 28, 2010. He followed it up with another century in the next match of the tri-series against Sri Lanka on May 30, 2010 by scoring 101 not out. In the 3rd ODI played at Sir Vivian Richards Stadium, Antigua; Sharma scored a matching winning 86 of 91 balls against the West Indies. Sharma won his first Man of the Series award for excellent batting performance through out the ODI series.

Indian Premier League Sharma was signed up by the Deccan Chargers franchise for a sum of US$ 750,000 a year. In a match against Kolkata Knight Riders where 21 was required off the last over, Sharma scored 26 off the over from Mashrafe Mortaza to seal a win. 2011 Mumbai Indians 10 8 3 382 87 56.40 215 131.16 0 2 0 23 12 Injury prevents Test debut Sharma was called into the Indian Test team in February as the only reserve batsman, and when V.