Rohit Sharma Age 2026: How Old Is Rohit Sharma Today?

Last updated: November 15, 2026  ·  By Nathan Cole

Rohit Sharma is 39 years old in November 2026. He was born on April 30, 1987, in Nagpur, Maharashtra, which makes him 39 years and six months old today — and he turns 40 on April 30, 2027. He is the oldest player in India’s ODI side, a former captain in all three formats, and the only batter in history with three ODI double centuries. He has retired from two formats and kept one, and the question hanging over every innings he plays now is the same one this article answers in full: what does 39 look like for a cricketer who has already done everything except decide when to stop?

The numbers at 39 are still elite. As of October 3, 2026, he has 12,120 ODI runs at an average of 49.27, with 35 centuries and a highest score of 264 — the highest individual score in men’s ODI cricket. On September 30, 2026, in Guwahati, he became only the third Indian and the seventh batter ever to reach 12,000 ODI runs, and the oldest Indian to score an ODI century. His 381 ODI sixes are the most by any batter in the format’s history, and his 674 sixes across formats are the most in international cricket.

This is a full profile of Rohit Sharma at 39: the Borivali childhood, the nineteen-year international career, the captaincy and the two retirements, the 2026 season as it is actually unfolding — including the duck in Auckland, the hundred at Lord’s and the diving catch at Mount Maunganui — and the 2027 World Cup question. The life story in full is in Rohit Sharma’s biography, the money is in our breakdown of his $26 million net worth, and his physical measurements are in our piece on how tall Rohit Sharma is.

Born in Nagpur, Raised in Borivali

Rohit Gurunath Sharma was born on April 30, 1987, in Nagpur, a city in eastern Maharashtra better known for oranges than for cricketers. His family moved to Mumbai while he was young, and he was raised largely by his grandparents in Borivali, a suburb in the city’s north-west, in a one-room home. His uncle and grandparents pooled what they had to keep him in cricket; the family could not afford the fees of the city’s famous cricket academies, and for years the plan was simply to keep him playing.

The break came at school. He joined Swami Vivekanand International School in Borivali on a cricket scholarship, where coach Dinesh Lad saw a skinny boy with hands too quick for his age and moved him from bowling off-spin to batting. Lad’s decision remade Rohit’s career: the off-spinner became an opening batter. He played in the Kanga League, Mumbai’s famously tough club competition, where uncovered pitches and wet outfields teach young batters to survive before they learn to score. He also played for Air India in corporate cricket, the old route into the Mumbai Ranji Trophy side.

He was 20 when India picked him. His ODI debut came on June 23, 2007, against Ireland in Belfast, and his T20I debut followed that September at the inaugural World Twenty20. The Test debut took six more years — November 2013 against the West Indies at Eden Gardens, where he scored 177 — because the middle order was full and the selectors could not decide where he fit. He was 26 by then, an age at which most modern greats have already played fifty Tests. Rohit’s career has always run on a different clock: late to start, and still going at 39.

The Long Road: 2007 to 2013

The first six years of Rohit Sharma’s international career are the reason the last thirteen mean so much. Between his debut in 2007 and the end of 2012, he played 81 ODIs and averaged barely over 30, drifting in and out of the side as a middle-order batter who could look like the most talented player on the field one day and get out to a loose shot the next. He was dropped from the 2011 World Cup squad — the tournament India won at home — and the omission still ranks as the lowest point of his career. He was 23, and the selectors had decided, in effect, that his talent was not enough.

What changed was a single decision in 2013. With the Champions Trophy in England approaching, captain MS Dhoni and coach Duncan Fletcher moved Rohit to open the batting alongside Shikhar Dhawan. The move gave him what the middle order never had: time. An opener faces the new ball, but he also faces the most balls, and Rohit’s game — built on timing rather than power, on picking length early and playing late — needed overs to breathe. In the Champions Trophy final at Edgbaston in June 2013, he made 65 and India won the title. He never batted anywhere else in ODIs again.

The opening slot also gave him his nickname. “Hitman” stuck because of what he did to bowling attacks once he was set: the effortless pull shot, the six hit so late and so clean that it seemed to arrive after the ball had already passed him. By the end of 2013 he had his first double century — 209 against Australia in Bangalore — and the late starter had become, at 26, the most dangerous white-ball opener in the world.

Three Double Centuries and a World Record

No batter in the history of men’s ODI cricket has scored three double centuries. Rohit Sharma has done it three times, and the third of them remains the highest individual score the format has ever seen.

The first came on November 2, 2013, against Australia in Bangalore: 209 off 158 balls, with 12 fours and 16 sixes. The second came a year later, on November 13, 2014, against Sri Lanka at Eden Gardens in Kolkata: 264 off 173 balls, with 33 fours and 9 sixes. He was 27 years old. The 264 broke Virender Sehwag’s record of 219 and stands, twelve years later, as the highest score in men’s ODI cricket — a record no one has come close to since. The third came on December 13, 2017, against Sri Lanka in Mohali: 208 not out off 153 balls, his second double century in three years against the same opponent.

The 2019 World Cup added a different record: five centuries in a single tournament, more than any batter has ever scored in one World Cup. He finished that tournament with 648 runs, the most in the competition, and India lost only in the semi-final to New Zealand. Four years later, at the 2023 World Cup at home, he scored 597 runs and hit 31 sixes — the most sixes by any batter in that tournament — as India reached the final and lost to Australia. The two World Cups frame his thirties: the first made him a record-holder, the second made him a captain chasing a trophy he did not get.

Captain Rohit: Five IPL Titles and Two ICC Trophies

Rohit Sharma’s captaincy record is the strongest argument that his thirties were better than his twenties. He took over the Mumbai Indians in 2013, mid-season, and won the title that year. Four more followed — 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2020 — making him the most successful captain in IPL history, with five titles in eleven seasons. Add the 2009 title he won as a player with the Deccan Chargers, and he has six IPL winner’s medals, more than any other player in the league.

The India captaincy came in stages. He took the T20I side in November 2021, the ODI side in December 2021, and the Test side in February 2022, succeeding Virat Kohli in all three formats. The Test captaincy was the hardest job: India lost the World Test Championship final in 2023 to Australia, and his own Test batting never matched his white-ball numbers. But the white-ball captaincy delivered what Indian cricket had waited thirteen years for. On June 29, 2024, in Barbados, India beat South Africa by seven runs to win the T20 World Cup — India’s first ICC title since 2013, and the trophy Rohit lifted as captain in the last T20I he would ever play. Nine months later, on March 9, 2025, in Dubai, India beat New Zealand by four wickets to win the Champions Trophy, with Rohit scoring 76 in the final and taking Player of the Match.

The two trophies are why the captaincy debate ended. Before 2024, critics asked whether a 37-year-old could lead India to a global title; after Barbados and Dubai, the question became whether anyone else could have done it. The answer, in the record books at least, is that no Indian captain since MS Dhoni has won two ICC trophies — and Rohit did it in nine months, at 37 and 38.

The Two Retirements: T20Is and Tests

Rohit Sharma has retired twice, and both retirements were timed like his batting: late, deliberate, and at the top. The first came on June 29, 2024, minutes after lifting the T20 World Cup in Barbados. He announced his retirement from T20 internationals on the podium, with the trophy in his hands, closing a 159-match T20I career with 4,231 runs and five centuries — still the record for the most T20I hundreds by any batter. He was 37. The format had given him his debut in 2007 and his first world title in 2007; he left it with a second title in 2024.

The second came on May 7, 2025, in a short social-media post. He retired from Test cricket after 67 matches, 4,301 runs and 12 centuries, at 38. The Test career had been a story of two halves: a brilliant start in 2013, a long middle-order struggle, and a late revival as an opener from 2019, when he scored centuries in both innings of his first Test as an opener against South Africa. But the final two years were lean — a poor series in Australia in early 2025, where he dropped himself for the final Test in Sydney — and he chose to go before the selectors made the decision for him.

Both retirements had the same effect on his age profile: they narrowed him to one format, and they made his ODI career the whole story. The BCCI’s response was equally clear. In February 2026, the board abolished the Grade A+ contract category and moved Rohit to Grade B — ₹3 crore a year, down from ₹7 crore — alongside Virat Kohli, who was demoted on the same day. The message was plain: an ODI-only player, however great, is no longer a top-tier contract. He still earns ₹6 lakh per ODI appearance on top of the retainer.

2026 at 39: Lord’s, Guwahati and the New Zealand Test

If anyone doubted that a 39-year-old could still decide matches, the 2026 season answered them. Rohit’s year began with a lean run against New Zealand early in the year — 61 runs in three innings — and then turned. Against Afghanistan he made 79. Against England, at Lord’s, he struck 138 — the first ODI century by an Indian batter at the ground, and his highest score of the year. Then came Guwahati.

On September 30, 2026, in the second ODI against the West Indies at Barsapara Cricket Stadium, Rohit scored 101 off 75 balls and crossed 12,000 ODI runs in the same innings — the third Indian, after Sachin Tendulkar and Virat Kohli, and the seventh batter ever to reach the mark, doing it in his 282nd innings. The hundred was his 35th in ODIs, and it made him the oldest Indian ever to score an ODI century, at 39 years and five months. India chased 406 in 43.3 overs that day, the second-highest successful chase in ODI history, and he finished the series with 92 in the final match. As of November 4, his 2026 ODI tally stood at 604 runs in 13 matches at an average of 46.46, with two centuries and three fifties.

The home series against New Zealand in November has been the other side of the coin. In Auckland on November 4, he was dismissed for a duck — his first ODI nought in three years, his 17th in 292 ODIs, and the end of a run of 39 consecutive ODI innings without one. His previous duck had come in the 2023 World Cup opener against Australia. Former India batter Mohammad Kaif noted a pattern in the dismissals: squared up in the first over, undone by bounce and movement away from the bat. Three innings into the series, his scores read 0, 23 and 0.

And then, on November 13 at Bay Oval in Mount Maunganui, came the moment that made the series. Fielding at short cover in the fourth ODI, Rohit dived full-length to his right and pouched a catch to dismiss New Zealand opener Finn Allen, who had made 41 off 30 balls. Sony Sports Network posted the clip with the caption “39 on paper, 19 in the field”, and the line travelled because it was true: the catch was the work of a young man’s body, and the man who took it will be 40 in April. The catch, not the runs, is the image of Rohit Sharma at 39 that will last from this series.

How 39 Compares: Cricket’s Late Bloomers

Thirty-nine is old for a modern cricketer, and it is old in a very specific way: the game now runs on three formats, year-round travel, and a fitness culture that measures body fat as closely as batting average. The players who survive past 35 do it by cutting formats, and Rohit has cut two of the three. The table below puts his age against the men he shares dressing rooms and record books with.

The comparison that matters most is the one with Tendulkar. Sachin Tendulkar played his last international match at 40, in November 2013, after 24 years in the game. Rohit, who made his debut the year Tendulkar turned 34, is now at the same crossroads Tendulkar reached at 40: an ODI-only great, a record-holder, and a man whose body and whose selectors will decide together whether there is one more tournament in him. Tendulkar’s final years were lean — his last hundred came at 39 — and the parallel is not flattering. But Rohit’s 2026 says something different: two centuries, a Lord’s first, and a 12,000-run milestone at 39. The numbers argue he is not finished. The ducks argue he is mortal. Both are true, and that is what makes the age question interesting.

Height is a small part of the age story — he is listed at 5 ft 8 in (173 cm), a compact frame for an opener — and it is covered in full in our piece on how tall Rohit Sharma really is. What matters more is what the frame can still do: the diving catch at Mount Maunganui answered that question for now.

The 2027 World Cup Question

The 2027 ODI World Cup will be played in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Namibia in October and November 2027. Rohit Sharma will be 40 years and six months old when it begins. No Indian has ever played a World Cup at 40 — Tendulkar’s last, in 2011, came at 37 — and the selectors have already begun the transition: Shubman Gill captains the ODI side now, and at 27 he is the future of the format, with 841 runs in 12 innings in 2026 at an average of 93.38.

The case for taking Rohit is simple. He is still scoring centuries at 39, he is the most experienced opener India has, and his 2026 numbers — 604 runs at 46.46 before the New Zealand series — are better than most openers half his age. The case against is equally simple: a World Cup is six weeks of cricket in three countries, the fielding standards are ruthless, and a 40-year-old opener who has already retired from two formats is a selection risk if his form dips in the months before the tournament. The BCCI has said nothing, and Rohit has said nothing. The honest answer, in November 2026, is that the decision will be made by his bat in the next twelve months — and by the selectors’ appetite for sentiment in a tournament India will be expected to win.

One thing is certain: he will not play another format to get there. The T20I and Test doors are closed, by his own choice, and the IPL is the only other cricket he plays. Mumbai Indians retained him for ₹16.30 crore a season for 2025 and 2026, and his career IPL earnings of ₹227.2 crore are the second-highest in the league’s history, behind only Kohli’s ₹230.2 crore after a May 2026 study. The IPL is where he stays sharp between ODI series — and where, at 40, he will be judged as a batter rather than as a former captain.

Family: Ritika, Samaira and Ahaan

Rohit Sharma married Ritika Sajdeh on December 13, 2015, in Mumbai. Ritika had been his manager before the marriage — she worked at the sports management firm that handled his commercial deals — and the relationship began as a professional one. Their daughter, Samaira, was born on December 30, 2018. Their son, Ahaan, was born on November 15, 2024, during the home Test series against New Zealand, when Rohit briefly left the squad to be present for the birth.

Family is the one part of his life he has kept deliberately quiet, and the age story is bound up in it: the man who was raised by his grandparents in a one-room home in Borivali now raises two children of his own, and the son born in November 2024 arrived in the same month his father was captaining India in a home Test series. The contrast is the whole arc of his life in miniature — from a childhood where money was short to a career where it is not, and from a boy whose family pooled its savings for his cricket fees to a father who can give his children everything except the one thing he had: the hunger that comes from having nothing.

He has never been a tabloid figure. There are no controversies of note in nineteen years of international cricket, no public feuds, and no off-field story that has ever threatened his career. The discipline shows in the longevity: a cricketer who has played at the top from 20 to 39 does not get there by accident, and the family structure around him — a wife who managed his career before she married him, children born a decade apart — is part of why he is still there.

What Rohit Sharma Is Worth at 39

At 39, Rohit Sharma’s estimated net worth sits at ₹214–230 crore, roughly $26–28 million. The range comes from 2026 reporting: IPL.com puts him at ₹214 crore, Jagran Josh at ₹214–230 crore, and SurpriseSports at $26 million. Alux’s October 2026 ranking of the world’s richest cricketers puts him at about $30 million. Higher figures — ₹250 crore and even ₹350 crore — circulate on weaker outlets and count gross asset values without deducting liabilities; this profile treats them as outliers. The full working is in our breakdown of Rohit Sharma’s net worth.

The money at 39 comes from four streams, and the balance between them has shifted with age. The IPL is still the largest: ₹16.30 crore a season from Mumbai Indians, and ₹227.2 crore in career earnings, the second-most in the league’s history. The BCCI contract is now the smallest — ₹3 crore a year at Grade B, plus ₹6 lakh per ODI. Endorsements are the steadiest: 25-plus brands, including Adidas, CEAT, Dream11 and Hublot, worth an estimated ₹50–60 crore a year. And property — a Mumbai home and investments worth over ₹50 crore by most accounts — is the part of the fortune that will outlast the cricket.

The age angle on the money is straightforward: his earning power peaked in his mid-thirties, when he held all three captaincies and the top BCCI contract, and it is now declining as the formats fall away. The Grade B demotion in February 2026 cost him ₹4 crore a year in retainer alone. But the endorsement income has held, because brands pay for fame as much as for form, and Rohit Sharma at 39 is still one of the most recognisable faces in Indian sport. The fortune will not grow the way it did between 2021 and 2024. It does not need to.

Fitness and the Fielding That Silenced the Doubters

For most of his career, Rohit Sharma’s fitness was the one criticism that followed him everywhere. He has always carried more weight than the modern cricketer is supposed to, and the commentary about it — from fans, from former players, from his own captain at times — has been a constant since his twenties. The criticism peaked during the 2024–25 Test season, when his batting slumped and the questions about his conditioning became questions about his place in the side.

The answer he has given, at 39, is on the field rather than on the scales. The diving catch at Mount Maunganui on November 13, 2026 — full-length, to his right, at short cover, to dismiss a set batter who had made 41 off 30 — was the kind of fielding effort that ends fitness debates for a week. It was not a one-off, either: his ground fielding in the 2026 ODI season has been consistently sharp, and his throwing arm from the deep remains one of the best in the Indian side. The point is not that he is suddenly an athlete in the modern mould. It is that a cricketer’s value at 39 is measured in what he can still do, not in what he looks like doing it — and what he can still do includes diving full-length to take a catch that most 25-year-olds would not reach.

The body has still set the terms of his career. He retired from Tests at 38 in part because five-day cricket asks more of a body than one-day cricket does, and the IPL’s two-month sprint suits him better than a Test summer. The 2027 question is, in the end, a fitness question as much as a batting one: can a 40-year-old body survive six weeks of World Cup cricket in three countries? The catch at Bay Oval says yes. The ducks in Auckland say maybe. November 2027 is a long way away, and the answer will come one innings at a time.

Sources & Reporting

This profile was reported from named, dated sources in November 2026. Career statistics — 291 ODIs, 12,120 runs, average 49.27, 35 centuries, 381 sixes, and the 20,652-run international total — come from CricXZ’s player profile, with a statistics cutoff of October 3, 2026, reviewed November 6, 2026. The 2026 season reporting — 604 runs in 13 ODIs at 46.46, the Lord’s 138, the Guwahati 101 and the 12,000-run milestone, and Gill’s 841 runs as ODI captain — comes from CricTracker (November 2, 2026) and RoyalStagFan’s records roundup. The New Zealand series reporting — the Auckland duck on November 4, the 39-innings duck-free streak, the 17 career ducks, and the 0, 23, 0 series scores — comes from Criczine (November 4, 2026) and Sportskeeda (November 14, 2026). The Bay Oval diving catch (November 13, 2026) and the “39 on paper, 19 in the field” line come from SportsTiger and CricTracker reporting of the fourth ODI, with Sony Sports Network as the source of the clip.

Contract and earnings figures come from 2026 reporting: the BCCI Grade B demotion (₹3 crore, February 2026) and the IPL retention (₹16.30 crore per season) from IPL.com and CricHeroes; the ₹227.2 crore career IPL earnings figure and the Kohli comparison (₹230.2 crore, May 2026 study) from Alux’s October 2026 richest-cricketers ranking. Net worth comes from IPL.com (₹214 crore), Jagran Josh (₹214–230 crore), SurpriseSports ($26 million) and Alux (about $30 million). Biographical facts — the Nagpur birth, the Borivali childhood, the Dinesh Lad coaching, the June 23, 2007 ODI debut, the 2013 opening switch, the Champions Trophy and T20 World Cup dates, the May 7, 2025 Test retirement, and the family dates — are drawn from standard cricket references (Wikipedia, Cricinfo data) cross-checked against Guide Net Worth’s own biography of Rohit Sharma, published October 30, 2026. Reporting window: November 10–15, 2026. Corrections: figures are updated when new reporting emerges — contact us via the About page if you spot an error.

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