Rohit Sharma Unknown Fact: Rohit Sharma is one of the most powerful batsmen in the world today, who has the experience of about 488 international matches. It was Rohit, under whose captaincy Team India won the 2024 T20 World Cup title. ‘Hitman’ has also made Mumbai Indians the IPL champion 5 times under his captaincy. Rohit has scored more than 19,000 runs in international cricket, but the beginning of his cricket career was very different from the present time. There was a time when he used to play cricket for Rs 10-20.
Rohit Sharma’s cricket career started from Borivali and coach Dinesh Lad was very impressed by his off-spin bowling. Not only in childhood but even before the start of his professional career, Rohit considered himself a bowler, but after joining Team India, he became a full-time batsman. Once Rohit could not pass the trial of Under-16, but at the same time BCCI had created two new categories in the form of Under-15 and Under-17. The next time he appeared in the selection trials of the Mumbai team, he became the player of the tournament.
Used to play cricket for 10-20 rupees
Rohit Sharma himself has told that he used to play a lot of tennis and cricket in his childhood. He said, “I played a lot of tennis cricket till the age of 8-11 years. There were offers from other teams that they would give me Rs 10-20 to play. I have been living in Borivali and tennis cricket is very spread there. “Tennis cricket is taken very seriously there, 5 to 10 thousand people come to watch the matches.”
After traveling a long distance, Rohit made his international debut in 2007 by playing an ODI match against Ireland. In that match, Rohit could neither bowl nor bat.
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