'Happy birthday Hitman!' - Wishes pour in on Rohit Sharma's 36th birthday

Regarded as arguably one of the best batters in the modern era, India and Mumbai Indians (MI) skipper Rohit Sharma celebrated his 36^th birthday on Sunday, April 30. Since his debut in 2007, the Nagpur-born batter has become a household name in India. His natural flair and stroke-play has helped him garner massive success in the international and domestic circuits. 

Affectionately referred to as ‘Hitman’ by his fans, Rohit has featured in 148 T20Is, 243 ODIs, and 49 Tests thus far, having aggregated 3853, 9825 and 3379 runs, respectively. He has scored four tons and 29 fifties in T20Is, 30 centuries and 48 fifties in ODIs, and nine tons and 14 half-centuries in Test cricket.

Apart from his impressive batting exploits, Rohit has also excelled as a captain. Since taking over the leadership reins in 2013 for Mumbai Indians, Rohit completed an illustrious 10 years as the skipper of the franchise in the ongoing 16^th edition of the IPL.

The 36-year-old is also the only skipper to have won five IPL titles as captain (2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2020) while he is among the few players with a hat-trick in the cash-rich league, which he got with the Deccan Chargers in 2009 against Mumbai Indians at Centurion.

Further, only eight cricketers have breached the 200-run mark in ODIs and Rohit is the only player to have three double centuries (264, 209, and 208*) in the format. The current Indian skipper has the third-most ODI centuries (30), behind only Sachin Tendulkar (49) and Virat Kohli (46). 

Rohit created history in the 2019 ODI World Cup in England, when he notched up five centuries in mere nine matches, the most in a single edition of a World Cup. He was also a part of the 2007 T20 World Cup-winning team as well as the 2013 Champions Trophy-winning squad.

He won the prestigious Arjuna award in 2015, the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna in 2020 and the ICC Men's ODI Cricketer of the Year in 2019. As he celebrates his 36^th birthday, members of the cricketing fraternity took to various social media platforms to wish the ‘Hitman’.

Here is how the cricketing fraternity extended their wishes to Rohit Sharma:

Mumbai Indians@mipaltan

🚨 Rohit garu standing tall as always 🥹 A tribute by our Hyderabad Paltan 🙌 #HappyBirthdayRohit #Hitman10 #OneFamily #MumbaiMeriJaan #MumbaiIndians #IPL2023 #TATAIPL twitter.com/Manojkumar_099…

Manojkumar@Manojkumar_099

🤩❤️ #HappyBirthdayRohit @ImRo45

11:22 AM · Apr 30, 2023

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Yuvraj Singh@YUVSTRONG12

Happy birthday brothaman 🎂 from being a youngster in the team when I first met you to now leading the team, you’ve done well & should feel proud of how far you’ve come 💪🏻 hope you score tons of runs & get home loads of trophies this year! Lots of love 🤗❤️@ImRo45

09:50 AM · Apr 30, 2023

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Yuzvendra Chahal@yuzi_chahal

Happy Birthday to my favourite best brother in the whole world @ImRo45 happiest birthday ❤️ To my guiding light , my best friend, the person who makes me laugh more than anyone else in the world 🎂 Happy Birthday Rohitaaaaaa shramaaaa ❤️🤗 CC:- Ritika bhabhi 👀😂🙈

11:44 AM · Apr 30, 2023

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Punjab Kings@PunjabKingsIPL

Here's to one of the finest openers cricket has ever seen. 🤩 Happy Birthday, 𝐇𝐢𝐭𝐦𝐚𝐧. 🎂 🇮🇳 #HappyBirthdayRohit

11:39 AM · Apr 30, 2023

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Jhulan Goswami@JhulanG10

Sending warm wishes on your birthday, @ImRo45! May your year be filled with victories and successes! Wishing you a year full of victories and successes🏏🎂 #RohitSharma #HitmanBirthday

11:48 AM · Apr 30, 2023

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Harbhajan Turbanator@harbhajan_singh

Happy Birthday @ImRo45 . I wish you good luck and success. May you have another year filled with new achievements for yourself and Indian cricket. Stay blessed always brother. #HappyBirthdayRohit

09:17 AM · Apr 30, 2023

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Munaf Patel@munafpa99881129

Only cricketer to score 3 ODI double centuries Only cricketer to score 4 T20I 💯 Only cricketer to score 5 ODI World Cup 💯 in a season Only cricketer to win 6 IPL 🏆 Birthday wishes to @ImRo45 #HappyBirthdayRohit #HappyBirthdayrohitsharma #Hitman #RohitSharma𓃵

06:21 AM · Apr 30, 2023

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BCCI@BCCI

4️⃣4️⃣0️⃣ intl. matches 1️⃣7️⃣0️⃣5️⃣7️⃣ intl. runs 4️⃣3️⃣ intl. hundreds 💯 Only cricketer to score Three ODI double hundreds 🫡🫡 Here’s wishing #TeamIndia captain @ImRo45, a very happy birthday 🎂 👏🏻

09:00 AM · Apr 30, 2023

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Royal Challengers Bangalore@RCBTweets

Here's wishing the captain of #MenInBlue, Rohit Sharma, a very Happy Birthday! 🇮🇳🥳 Have a great day, Hitman! 🙌 #PlayBold #ನಮ್ಮRCB #TeamIndia @ImRo45

07:01 AM · Apr 30, 2023

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