Rohit Sharma’s Complete Cricket Career:

Abhishek Nayar shared, “When Rohit Sharma was preparing and had practice sessions with me a few days ago, Rohit was looking at the 2027 WC and really wanted to win it and make India Proud.

Rohit Sharma is a player who has made not just one or two, but three double centuries in ODIs, and he is the first cricketer in the world to do so, and the only cricketer to date. Rohit was one of the most successful captains in the IPL. And under his captaincy, Mumbai Indians won 5 IPL trophies. Still, in 2024, Hardik Pandya was made captain in his place. By 2022, Rohit had become the all-format captain of India. Under his captaincy, India reached the semifinals of the 2022 T20 World Cup. But unfortunately, we lost that match to England by 10 wickets. After that comes the 2023 ODI World Cup, where we all felt that India would win this tournament because we were undefeated in the league stage. And the whole team was in great form, but unfortunately, we could not win the final of that tournament. Everyone was shocked. And some people were even talking about removing Rohit from the captaincy. But little did they know that this very captain would go on to win back-to-back ICC trophies for India. And now, according to the latest news, his ODI captaincy has also been stripped away, and Shubman Gill has been made the ODI captain in his place. But now the question is, will Ro-Ko’s (Rohit’s) dream of winning the 2027 World Cup remain unfulfilled? So today in this blog, we will see how Rohit Sharma dominate the world cricket.

●Rohit Sharma’s Journey:

Delivering splendid performances in domestic cricket, Rohit is picked for the 2007 T20 World Cup. In this tournament, some importance innings played by him, like 50 runs against South Africa and in the final match he played a crucial innings of 30 runs unbeaten to help India win the World Cup and played an important role. After this comes the 2008 CB Series, in whose first match Rohit built an important partnership with Sachin Tendulkar and made 66 runs. For those who do not know, there are a total of 3 matches in the CB Series finals. And India won the first 2 matches, winning the 2008 CB Series. In the 2008 IPL, he scored 404 runs. And in the 2009 IPL, he also took a hat-trick against Mumbai Indians. Because of this, he gained a lot of popularity. After this, in the 2010 Zimbabwe Triangular Series, Rohit scored his first 2 back-to-back centuries. 114 runs against Zimbabwe and 101 runs against Sri Lanka.

●Rohit Sharma’s Struggles:

Even after playing more than 40 ODI matches, Rohit had only scored 2 centuries. And because of this, he was unable to secure a permanent place in the Indian team. In the 2011 World Cup squad, Piyush Chawla was selected instead of him. And when he got that news, he posted this tweet: “Really Really disappointed of not being the part of the WC squad.. I need to move on from here.. but honestly it was a big setback.. any views!” But who knew back then that he would go on to win a World Cup for India one day. After the 2011 World Cup, Rohit was motivated by his childhood coach and senior players like Yuvraj Singh to work on his weaknesses. And whereas in 2011 he scored 611 runs in 16 innings. While in 2012, he scored only 168 runs in 14 ODI matches. At this point, everyone felt that just one more bad innings and Rohit Sharma would be dropped from the Indian team.

●Comebacks & Records:

•But MS Dhoni told Rohit to open in the 4th ODI match against England in 2013. And in that match, Rohit scored 83 runs off 93 balls. And that became a breakthrough innings for him. After this, Rohit Sharma made many records as an opener, like the iconic 360 runs chase against Australia in which Rohit scored 141 runs, Dhawan scored 95, and Virat scored 100 runs. In the same series, Rohit scored 209 runs to make his first double century. In 2013, he became the captain of Mumbai Indians. And he led MI to win their first-ever IPL trophy. In November 2013, Rohit also made his Test debut, in which he scored a century and also won the man of the match award. By the way, Rohit’s debut was supposed to happen in 2010. But during practice at that time, Rohit accidentally stepped on Wriddhiman Saha’s foot and his ankle got twisted. Because of this, Saha made his debut in his place.

•In 2014, Rohit made a world record by scoring 264 runs against Sri Lanka at the Eden Gardens Stadium in Kolkata. In the beginning, his catch was dropped at just 4 runs. And after that, Rohit severely thrashed the Sri Lankan bowlers. Even today, that is the highest individual score in ODIs. And he became the only player in the world to score more than one double century. Where he was dropped due to his performance in the 2011 World Cup, there he was playing as an opener in the 2015 World Cup. Even though we could not win the World Cup, but Rohit scored 330 runs in 8 innings at an average of 47.25, which included one century and 2 half-centuries.

•2017 was a magical year for Rohit. He scored 208 runs against Sri Lanka, smashing his 3rd double century. In 21 ODI innings, he scored 1293 runs along with 6 centuries.

•Then came the 2019 World Cup, in which Rohit scored 648 runs with a record-breaking 5 centuries in a single World Cup. But unfortunately, our top-order collapsed in the semifinal match. As a result, we lost the match by 18 runs. And after this, MS Dhoni retired from international cricket.

●Captaincy Era:

By 2020, Mumbai Indians had become the most successful team in the IPL under Rohit, winning 5 trophies. This could perhaps be a reason why Virat’s board made him the captain of India. By 2022, Rohit had become the captain of India across all formats. And in the 2022 T20 World Cup, he took India to the semifinals. But we lost that match to England by 10 wickets. Under Rohit, we also played the 2023 WTC (World Test Championship) final. But unfortunately, we lost that against Australia. After this came the 2023 World Cup, which was perhaps everything for Rohit Sharma. The World Cup that he missed in 2011 due to his poor performance – he was leading India in that same tournament in 2023. Everything was going well, and we were winning all the matches easily. This World Cup made Diwali 2023 even more special. Throughout the tournament, India was the only team that remained undefeated. In the semifinal match, Rohit gave India a great start by playing a quick innings of 47 runs off 29 balls. India made a total of 397 runs. And in this match, Mohammed Shami took a 7-wicket haul to restrict New Zealand to 327 runs. In the final match, Rohit again scored 47 runs off 31 balls. But due to the lack of a good partnership, we could only score 240 runs. And we all know that against a team like Australia, these many runs are not enough. As a result, Australia chased down this target in 43 overs and won the World Cup.

Ravi Shastri(commentary): “And Australia win the World Cup for the 6th time in front of 1,200,000 people,”.

From fans to cricketers, everyone was shocked. But inside Rohit, this defeat set off a fire to become the World Champion. But before that, something unexpected happened with him. Hardik Pandya replaced Rohit Sharma as a captain for the 2024 IPL. And a lot happened with Hardik in this tournament, which probably shouldn’t have happened.

●Achievements:

•After this came the 2024 T20 World Cup, which India completely dominated. And when the match happened against our favorite rivals Australia, Rohit hit 29 runs in Mitchell Starc’s over. He scored 92 runs off 41 balls in this match. This match was a must-win match for Australia. And Travis Head was in good touch. But this time luck was in India’s favor. As a result, Australia lost this match by 24 runs. And with this, they were almost eliminated from the World Cup. Where we had lost to England in the 2022 T20 World Cup, India defeated England in the 2024 semifinal, where Rohit played a crucial innings of 57 runs. Although Rohit did not perform anything special with the bat in the final match. But when India had to defend 30 runs off 30 balls, he smartly selected the bowlers to defeat South Africa by 7 runs. Thala for a reason! And India won the T20 World Cup and remained undefeated throughout the tournament.

After this came the 2024 Border-Gavaskar Trophy, which we lost very badly by 1-3. In fact, Rohit benched himself in the fifth match because he was not in form at that time.

•In the 2025 Champions Trophy, India remained undefeated throughout the tournament.And in the final match against New Zealand, Rohit played an important innings of 76 runs to become the player of the match and won India another ICC trophy.

Everything was going well then selectors made Shubman Gill the captain in Tests because Rohit was struggling in Test matches. Following this decision, Rohit immediately took retirement from Tests. And on October 4, 2025, the ODI Captaincy was also taken away from Rohit, and Shubman Gill was made the Captain. Seriously brother, Rohit Sharma was removed from captaincy! Bro, India’s win percentage under him in ODIs was 75%. And no other Indian Captain has ever had such a high win percentage. Chief Selector Ajit Agarkar gave the reason for this, saying, “It’s practically impossible to have three different captains for three formats in terms of planning.”

After this, Abhishek Nayar shared, “When Rohit Sharma was preparing and had practice sessions with me a few days ago, Rohit was looking at the 2027 WC and really wanted to win it and make India Proud.”I hope Rohit plays the 2027 World Cup. Because personally, I want him to lift the World Cup as a winner in his hands.

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