Indian cricketer Rohit Gurunath Sharma, who was born on April30,1987, currently serves as the team's captain.Sharma is the only player to have scored three double century in one-day internationals and currently holds the record for the 

highest individual score (264) in a one-day international match.

After scoring five hundreds during the 2019 World Cup, he was named the ICC Men's ODI Cricketer of the Year.

Sharma has won two prominent national awards: the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna in 2020 and the Arjuna Award in 2015.

Sharma is a proponent of animal welfare causes outside of cricket.

He is a member of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and serves as the designated Rhino Ambassador for WWF-India (PETA).

He has participated in PETA's effort to increase public awareness of the problem of homeless cats and dogs.On April 30, 1987, Sharma was born in Bansod, Nagpur, Maharashtra. His mother, Purnima Sharma, is an Andhra Pradesh native. His father, Gurunath Sharma, was a warehouse keeper for a transportation company. Due to his father's meagre salary, Sharma was raised by his grandparents and uncles in Borivali. Only on weekends did he travel to his parents' one-room Dombivli home to see them. Vishal Sharma, a younger sibling, is his.

In 1999, Sharma utilised his uncle's funds to enrol in a cricket camp. His camp coach, Dinesh Lad, suggested that he switch to Swami Vivekanand International School because it had better cricket facilities than his previous school and Lad was the head coach there. According to Sharma, "I told him I couldn'tbut he managed to secure me a scholarship. I so avoided paying anything for four years while excelling at cricket. Prior to Lad recognising Sharma's batting prowess and moving him up from number eight to open the innings, Sharma was an off-spinner with some batting talent. He performed admirably in the Harris and Giles Shield school cricket competitions, opening the innings and getting a century.Sharma, who hit 264 against Sri Lanka at Eden Gardens in Kolkata on November 13, 2014, holds the record for the highest individual score by a batsman in a one-day international game. [2] In this style of international cricket, he is the only player to have recorded three double century. [93] Sharma was selected the ODI Player of the Year by the International Cricket Council in January 2020. (ICC). [94] Sharma became the only batsman to score five hundreds in a single Cricket World Cup edition during the 2019 tournament.

Sharma made history on October 5, 2019, in a Test match against South Africa by becoming the first player to record two hundred in a single game while playing as the opening batsman.