Rohit Sharma
Rohit Sharma profile with Test retirement (May 2025), T20I retirement after the 2024 World Cup win and a dated ODI squad reference; squad status is not a playing XI.
Rohit Sharma is an Indian top-order batter whose long international and IPL career is defined by opening-batter impact, major white-ball achievements and leadership; scorecards should primarily be read through his batting role.
Read FairPlay’s India–West Indies fixture context for dated match guidance; country association here does not place Rohit Sharma in that XI.
At a glance
- Provider ID
- 278
- Role
- Top-order batter
- Born
- 30 April 1987
- Gender
- Male
- Batting
- Right-handed
- Bowling
- Right-arm off-break
Role and scorecard identity
ICC lists Sharma’s role as Batter, while ESPNcricinfo identifies him more specifically as a Top order Batter. Both ESPNcricinfo and the Mumbai Indians profile record him as a right-hand batter and right-arm off-break bowler. In practical scorecard terms, he is primarily a run-scoring top-order player: the off-break label describes a bowling style, not an assumption that he will bowl in every match or be classified as an all-rounder.
Sharma’s opening-batter role is especially important context. ESPNcricinfo marks his move to opening in ODIs in late 2012 as a turning point, and an ICC feature describes his ability to set the tempo from the top of the order. Readers should therefore interpret an innings beside his name as top-order run production and powerplay/early-innings influence, subject to the match format and actual XI.
Career context
ESPNcricinfo records Sharma’s international career as beginning in 2007, with an ODI debut for India in June 2007 and a Test debut in 2013. The same profile describes three ODI double-hundreds, five centuries in the 2019 ODI World Cup and six IPL titles: one with Deccan Chargers and five with Mumbai Indians, whom he captained for multiple title-winning seasons.
Mumbai Indians’ official profile credits him as the winning skipper of India’s 2024 T20 World Cup and 2025 Champions Trophy campaigns. BCCI’s official account also describes him as an India opening batter and reports a 2025 ODI-ranking milestone. These are historical career markers, not a prediction about future honours or a claim about present selection.
What readers should understand
Sharma’s profile is best understood as that of an established, high-impact batter who can build an opening-platform innings and then accelerate decisively. His historical record spans Tests, ODIs, T20Is and the IPL, but format matters: an ODI or T20 scorecard will usually foreground his opening/top-order batting value, while the off-break entry should not be mistaken for a guaranteed bowling contribution. A scorecard alone also cannot establish whether he was selected for an upcoming fixture; that requires an official team announcement or the published playing XI.
Rohit Sharma retired from Tests in May 2025 and from T20Is after India’s 2024 World Cup win. A BCCI squad announcement dated 16 September 2026 names him in India’s ODI squad and names Shubman Gill as captain; ESPNcricinfo lists his latest ODI as 3 October 2026. A squad listing is not a confirmed playing XI.
A profile records source-backed identity and role context. It does not place this player in an XI or replace an official team announcement.