Top 8 most interesting facts about India vice captain Rohit Sharma

The ‘Hitman’ Rohit Sharma has created a special identity in the history of Indian cricket. He is the only cricketer to score 3 double centuries in One Day International as well as to score highest individual runs in One Day International.

Here are the top 8 most interesting facts about Rohit Sharma:-

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1) Rohit Sharma is a polyglot- he can speak 4 different languages namely English, Hindi, Marathi and Telugu.

2) Rohit Sharma is the only second Indian cricketer who scored a century in a knock out match in the ICC World Cup history. Before him only Sourav Ganguly did it.

3) Rohit Sharma is the only player who has won 4 IPLs. He won one IPL with Deccan Chargers and the rest three were with the Mumbai Indians. That is why Rohit Sharma is considered the most successful IPL captain.

4) Rohit Sharma has scored the most number of fours scored in an innings. He did this during his innings of 264 against Sri Lanka in 2014. During his stay at the crease, he hit 33 fours.

5) Rohit Sharma’s wife Ritika Sajdeh is the rakhi sister of Yuvraj Singh.

6) Rohit Sharma loves to eat eggs. Once he challenged his friend to eat 50 eggs without a break and did it! But his family being strictly vegetarian, he has to eat eggs only outside home, as per tradition.

7) Rohit Sharma once revealed what was the most costly item he had ever bought from a shopping mall. It turned out to be four jeans and 10-15 T-shirts that he had bought with ₹ 1.5 lakhs from Australia.

8) Rohit Sharma’s first coach Dinesh Lad insisted his parents to change his school and admit him to Swami Vivekananda International School, as he would get better coaching and training facilities there. Rohit’s parents were poor and could not afford to send him to such an expensive school. Rohit himself was hesitant. But the coach managed to convince the school authority to give Rohit scholarship for the next four years considering his excellence in cricket. Dinesh Lad has the biggest role in Rohit’s success.