Captain Rohit Sharma has already established himself as one of the most prolific hitters in the modern era. His significant contribution in the success of Indian cricket will always be remembered. The champion cricketer turned 35 today. Rohit Sharma’s stint as Mumbai Indians’ captain in the IPL is deemed exemplary by several former cricketers. The skipper of Indian Cricket Team enjoys a massive fan following on and off social media. And today we have five unknown facts about Rohit Sharma that will surely fascinate his fans.

Rohit Sharma holds a hattrick of wickets against MI

Rohit Sharma was a part of Deccan chargers before captaining Mumbai Indians. However, the team is not more a part of IPL, but they were the second winners of Indian Premiere League. And Indian skipper played a very important role in it. Rohit, who started off as a bowler during his early days took a hat-trick that too against his current IPL team, Mumbai Indians. In IPL 2009’s 32th match, Rohit Sharma took 4 for 6 in his spell of two overs.

Rohit Sharma holds the record of maximum double centuries in the world

Till date 10 double centuries have been scored in the world of cricket. And the Indian skipper Rohit Sharma is the only player to have scored three double centuries in the One-day International matches (ODI). He also holds another record of the highest individual run scorer in the ODIs with 264 runs.

Do you know Rohit Sharma’s Net worth?

Skipper Rohit Sharma is currently in A+ Grade of players as specified by the BCCI. This simply means that the board pays him an annual salary of one crore. Moreover, the cricketer is also paid a sum of 15 lakh per Test match, followed by 6 lakhs per ODI and finally INR 3 lakh per T20I match as his match fee from the BCCI.

The Indian skipper is currently endorsing 12 different brands independently like, Lays, Maggi, Nissan, Oppo, Ceat, Adidas, Aristocrat, and many more. Rohit Sharma generates an income of lum sum 7 crores from his brand endorsement which makes his Net Worth of $18.7 million (INR 130 crore).

A baby Rhino is named after Rohit Sharma’s daughter, Samaira

Rohit Sharma is an active member of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. The Indian skipper is the Rhino Ambassador of WWF India. He even paid a visit to Nairobi to see how the last surviving Northern White Rhinoceros was protected. So, to recognise Rohit’s work for Rhino conservation, the Ol Pejeta Conservancy named a female baby rhino ‘Samaira Sharma’ after the name of Rohit Sharma’s daughter.

Rohit Sharma can speak four languages

Indian captain Rohit Sharma knows four languages of India- English, Hindi, Marathi, and Telugu. Rohit’s mother is from Vizag hence is speaks Telugu and later the family shifted to Mumbai, so the cricketer also speaks Marathi.

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