Interesting Facts about India's Hit-Man Rohit Sharma

Interesting Facts about India’s Hit-Man Rohit Sharma: Indian opener Rohit Sharma has been one of the most talented players going around. Once he gets going, it will a visual treat for the audience and it will be hard to stop him. Rohit is the proud owner of the highest individual score in ODIs- 264 and is the batsman to breach the 200 mark in ODIs twice. He is also called as Hit-Man by his teammates and among the social media, he has a lot of nickname which includes Maggieman, No-Hit etc. These are some of the known facts about him. Here are some of the unknown fact about the Indian batsman:

• Rohit first came into the news when he became the first Indian to score a T20 century. He scored an unbeaten 101 off 45 balls for Mumbai against Gujarat in 2006.
• Rohit Sharma might hail from Mumbai, Maharashtra, but his mother belongs to Vishakapatinam, Andhra Pradesh. Rohit Sharma can fluently converse in four languages- English, Hindi, Marathi and Telugu.
• Rohit Sharma was given a scholarship in his school for his cricketing talent when his parents could not afford to pay the fees.
• Once, Rohit bunked his school to meet Virender Sehwag, his batting idol.
• Rohit belongs to a vegetarian family but used to eat egg outside his home. His favourite dish during his childhood was egg.
• Once Rohit was challenged by his friend to eat 45 eggs without a break and successfully managed to do so.
• His coach Dinesh Lad is the father of his Mumbai teammate Sidhesh Lad. It was Dinesh who transformed Rohit into a batsman after he began his career as an offie.
• During the 2007-08 tour of Australia, Rohit went to shopping in Australia and purchased some apparels (four jeans and 10-15 T-shirts) worth 1.5 lakhs INR.
• In football, he is an ardent fan of Manchester United.
• Indian cricketer Virat Kohli revealed that Rohit is the one who loves sleeping the most in the Indian cricket team.
• Rohit was dating a British- Indian model Sofia Hayat. The pair got broke up later.
• Rohit Sharma is the 2nd Indian to score a century in a knock-out match in ICC World Cup history when he scored a match winning 137 against Bangladesh in Melbourne. First to do so was Sourav Ganguly against Kenya in 2003.
• Rohit’s knock of 264 would have won the 1983, 1987, 1992, 1996, 1999 and 2015 World Cup finals single-handedly.
• Rohit Sharma is the only batsman in the world to score Double-Hundreds in ODIs 2 times.
• Rohit highest individual score in ODIs is more than the highest totals of some International teams which includes Namibia, East Africa, USA and Hong Kong.
• Rohit’s favourite number is 45. Not only his jersey, but also his cars are also registered by that number.
• Rohit is one of the four players who have IPL with two different teams. He was won the IPL with Deccan Chargers and Mumbai Indians. Lakshmipathy Balaji, Pragyan Ojha and Yusuf Pathan are the other three players.