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Happy Birthday Rohit Sharma: Best Birthday wishes for Mumbai Indians captain on 34th birthday

Dixit Bhargav
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Happy Birthday Rohit Sharma: Best Birthday wishes for Mumbai Indians captain on 34th birthday

NAPIER, NEW ZEALAND – JANUARY 23: Rohit Sharma of India plays a shot during game one of the One Day International series between New Zealand and India at McLean Park on January 23, 2019 in Napier, New Zealand. (Photo by Kerry Marshall/Getty Images)

Happy Birthday Rohit Sharma: The senior Indian cricketer has been receiving heartening birthday wishes since midnight.

India white-ball vice-captain Rohit Sharma is celebrating his 34th birthday today. Currently leading defending champions Mumbai Indians in the ongoing 14th season of the Indian Premier League, Sharma must be enjoying the occasion as his team returned to winning ways via a 7-wicket victory against Rajasthan Royals at Arun Jaitley Stadium yesterday.

In 376 matches across formats at the highest level in his 14-year career, Sharma has amassed 14,684 runs at an average and strike rate of 44.22 and 86.92 respectively. Sharma, who also has a combined total of 40 centuries and 77 half-centuries, is unequivocally a modern-day great in white-ball cricket.

Sharma’s stock rose to another level once he started opening the batting for India. Having first opened the batting in a T20I in 2009, it was only four years later when he was given an extended run at the top or the order.

In 236 innings across formats as an opening batsman, Sharma’s 10,672 runs have come at an average and strike rate of 49.63 and 95.65 respectively. It is worth mentioning that 35 out of Sharma’s 40 international centuries have come at the top of the order.

Most successful captain in the IPL, Sharma has led Mumbai to five titles – a feat no other captain has achieved till date. Having scored 5,445 runs in 201 IPL innings at 31.47 and 130.41, Sharma is the fifth-highest run-scorer in the biggest T20 league around the world.

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Dixit Bhargav

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Born and brought up in Pathankot, Dixit Bhargav is an engineering and sports management graduate who works as a Cricket Editor at The SportsRush. Having written more than 10,000 articles across more than five years at TSR, his first cricketing memory dates back to 2002 when former India captain Sourav Ganguly had waved his jersey at the historic Lord’s balcony. What followed for an 8-year-old was an instant adulation for both Ganguly and the sport. The optimist in him is waiting for the day when Punjab Kings will win their maiden Indian Premier League title. When not watching cricket, he is mostly found in a cinema hall watching a Punjabi movie.

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