HISTORIC LOOK IS STRESSED IN A PARK SLOPE RENEWAL
Date: 01 May 1987
By ANDREE BROOKS
Andree BROOKS
Rohit Gurunath Sharma (born 30 April 1987) is an Indian international cricketer and the captain of the India national team in ODIs. He is also a former captain in Tests and T20Is. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest opening batters of all time, and one of the best batsmen of his generation. He is a right-handed batsman who plays for Mumbai Indians in Indian Premier League and for Mumbai in domestic cricket. After the team's victory at the 2024 Men's T20 World Cup, he announced his retirement from T20Is. He was also a member of the teams that won the 2007 T20 World Cup, the 2013 ICC Champions Trophy and the 2025 ICC Champions Trophy.
Sharma holds several batting records which include most runs in T20 Internationals, most sixes in international cricket, most double centuries in ODI cricket (3), most centuries at Cricket World Cups (7) and joint most hundreds in Twenty20 Internationals (5).He also holds the world record for the highest individual score (264) in a One Day International (ODI) and also holds the record for scoring most hundreds (five) in a single Cricket World Cup, for which he won the ICC Men's ODI Cricketer of the Year award in 2019. He is the first and only captain to lead a team in all ICC tournament finals.
He formerly captained Mumbai Indians and the team has won five Indian Premier League titles in 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2020 under him, making him the most successful captain in IPL history, sharing this record with MS Dhoni. He is also one of two players who have played in every edition of the T20 World Cup, from the inaugural edition in 2007 to the latest one in 2024. He is the only Indian player to win two T20 World Cups. He became the second Indian captain to win a T20 World Cup.
He has received two national honours, the Arjuna Award in 2015 and the prestigious Khel Ratna Award in 2020 by the Government of India. Under his captaincy, India won the 2018 Asia Cup and the 2023 Asia Cup, the seventh and eighth time the country won the title, both in ODI format as well as the 2018 Nidahas Trophy, their second overall and first in T20I format.
Leer más...El 30 de abril de 1987 fue un jueves bajo el signo estelar de ♉. Era el día 119 del año. El presidente de los Estados Unidos fue Ronald Reagan.
Si naciste en este día, tienes 38 años. Su último cumpleaños fue el miércoles, 30 de abril de 2025, hace 142 días. Su próximo cumpleaños es el jueves, 30 de abril de 2026, en 222 días. Ha vivido durante 14.022 días, o aproximadamente 336.544 horas, o aproximadamente 20.192.646 minutos, o aproximadamente 1.211.558.760 segundos
Date: 01 May 1987
By ANDREE BROOKS
Andree BROOKS
Date: 01 May 1987
Special to the New York Times
Date: 01 May 1987
By ALEX YANNIS, Special to the New York Times
Alex YANNIS
Date: 01 May 1987
By RONALD SULLIVAN
Ronald SULLIVAN
Date: 01 May 1987
By JOHN TAGLIABUE, Special to the New York Times
John TAGLIABUE
Date: 01 May 1987
By STEPHEN KINZER, Special to the New York Times
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