Rohit Sharma, who has the record of double century and most sixes, got Padma Shri, know the connection with 19

President Droupadi Murmu Honors Rohit Sharma: Former Indian cricket team captain Rohit Sharma was honored with the Padma Shri award on Tuesday. President Draupadi Murmu gave him the country’s fourth highest civilian award at Rashtrapati Bhavan. Rohit Sharma has been awarded the Padma Shri for his extraordinary contribution to Indian cricket over the last 2 decades.

President Draupadi Murmu honored Rohit Sharma at Rashtrapati Bhavan on Tuesday evening. Apart from this, former tennis player Vijay Amritraj was awarded Padma Bhushan and Indian women’s hockey team goalkeeper Savita Punia was awarded Padma Shri.

One of the best batsmen in the world

Rohit Sharma has been one of the best opening batsmen in the world in modern cricket. Rohit has given charismatic performance in his batting and captaincy in all three formats. Rohit, who started his career as a middle-order batsman, started playing as an opening batsman in 2013 and has established himself as the greatest opener in the last decade.

19 year old coincidence

Rohit Sharma started his international career on 23 June 2007 with an ODI against Ireland. He has been awarded the Padma Shri exactly 19 years after his international debut. Rohit made his T20 debut on 19 September 2007 and Test debut in November 2013.

A highly prestigious honor for a great of the game 🙌

President of India, Smt Droupadi Murmuji @rashtrapatibhvn confers former #TeamIndia captain Rohit Sharma @ImRo45 with the Padma Shri award 👏
pic.twitter.com/6EyffHr1A4

— BCCI (@BCCI) June 23, 2026

Rohit Sharma had a great career

Rohit Sharma, who has retired from Test and T20, has played 67 Tests, 285 ODIs and 159 T20s in his career so far. He has 4,301 runs in Tests with the help of 12 centuries, 11,720 runs in ODI with the help of 33 centuries and 62 half-centuries and 4,231 runs in T20 with the help of 5 centuries and 32 half-centuries.

Unique records have been recorded

Rohit Sharma holds the record for most double centuries in ODI cricket. He scored 3 double centuries. No one has been able to break this record of his till date. Along with this, he has the record of most sixes (653) in international cricket. Due to his extraordinary ability to hit sixes, he was called ‘Hitman’ Is also called. Rohit also holds the record for the highest individual score (264) in ODI cricket.

Read this also- We are not anyone’s ‘B-team’… CM Vijay got angry on DMK’s allegations, said a big thing while taunting Stalin

second most successful captain

Rohit Sharma is India’s most successful captain after former Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni. Under his captaincy, India has won the title of Asia Cup, T20 World Cup 2024 and ICC Champions Trophy 2025. Under the captaincy of Rohit, the Indian team ODI also played the final of the World Cup 2023.