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

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

Last updated: 14 November 2026 · By Celebamerica Editorial Staff

Rohit Sharma is 39 years old in November 2026. He was born Rohit Gurunath Sharma on 30 April 1987 in Bansod, Nagpur, Maharashtra, and he turned 39 on 30 April 2026. He turns 40 on 30 April 2027. That one line settles the search, but it hides the more interesting story: at an age when most opening batters have long since retired, Rohit is still walking out for India in one-day cricket, still scoring hundreds, and still setting records. On 30 September 2026 he scored 101 against the West Indies in Guwahati, passed 12,000 ODI runs, and brought up his 35th ODI century — at 39 years and 153 days, the oldest Indian ever to score an ODI hundred on home soil.

This page answers the age question in full. You will find his exact date of birth and birthplace, his age at every major moment of his career, what his age means for the 2027 ODI World Cup, how he compares with Virat Kohli and MS Dhoni, and what he is worth at 39. Every date below comes from dated reporting and standard cricket references, and where outlets disagree — above all on his net worth — the range is shown with the sources named, so you can see the working instead of being handed a single polished number.

Quick Fact Detail
Full Name Rohit Gurunath Sharma
Date of Birth 30 April 1987
Birthplace Bansod, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India
Age (November 2026) 39 years old; turns 40 on 30 April 2027
Height 5 ft 7 in (170 cm), as commonly listed
Role Right-handed opening batter, India (ODIs only since 2025)
Teams India, Mumbai Indians, Mumbai (domestic)
Estimated Net Worth (2026) $25–28 million (about ₹214–230 crore), reported estimates — see the money section
Primary Income Sources IPL contract (Mumbai Indians), BCCI central contract, brand endorsements
Key Works 264 vs Sri Lanka (2014), three ODI double centuries, five IPL titles as Mumbai Indians captain, 2024 T20 World Cup and 2025 Champions Trophy as India captain
Spouse Ritika Sajdeh (married December 2015)
Children Daughter Samaira (born 2018); son Ahan (born 2024)
Stylized illustrated portrait of Rohit Sharma in the blue India ODI jersey holding a cricket bat
Rohit Sharma, 39, in the blue of India — still opening the batting in ODIs in November 2026. (Illustration: Celebamerica)

How Old Is Rohit Sharma in 2026?

Rohit Sharma is 39 years old. The maths is simple and it checks out against every live source we consulted in November 2026: born 30 April 1987, he completed 39 years on 30 April 2026, when the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) posted its birthday wishes and the news agency ANI reported that he had “turned 39 on Thursday”. Sportradar’s player profile, updated in November 2026, lists his date of birth as 30 April 1987 with age 39. MyKhel’s player page says the same — born 30 April 1987, 39 years old as of 2026.

He will be 40 on 30 April 2027. That date matters more than most birthdays in sport, because the next ODI World Cup is scheduled for October and November 2027 in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Namibia. If Rohit plays in it, he will do so at 40 years and about five months old — older than any Indian batter has ever been at a World Cup, and one of the oldest outfield players the tournament has seen. The BCCI president, Mithun Manhas, said in October 2026 that age should not decide selection and that fitness and performance must come first, with both Rohit, 39, and Virat Kohli, then 37, still in contention for 2027. That statement, reported by Yardbarker on 13 October 2026, is the clearest official signal yet that Rohit’s age alone will not end his career.

There is a small trap in the search results worth warning you about. Several databases mix up players with similar names, and at least one profile page we saw during research listed a different Rohit Sharma’s details under his name. The cricketer’s date of birth — 30 April 1987, Nagpur — is confirmed across the BCCI, ESPNcricinfo data, Cricbuzz, and the major Indian sports outlets, and it is the date used throughout this article. If a page tells you he was born in 1993 or 1994, it is describing a different player.

Age has become the central talking point of Rohit’s late career, and not always fairly. When the selectors moved the ODI captaincy to Shubman Gill in October 2025, one report after another framed it as an age decision. A Bhaskar English analysis from 2026 listed the reasons the selectors were thought to have moved on, and age sat at the top: he is 39, recovery takes longer, and he plays only one format now. Yet the same weeks produced the opposite evidence. In the West Indies series in September and October 2026 he scored 32, 101 and 92 in three ODIs, and in November 2026 he broke Shahid Afridi’s record for the most ODI sixes against New Zealand. The runs keep arguing against the calendar, and that tension — a 39-year-old body producing 25-year-old numbers — is what this article tracks through every stage of his career.

The short answer, for the record: Rohit Sharma was born on 30 April 1987. He is 39 years old as of 14 November 2026 and turns 40 on 30 April 2027.

Rohit Sharma’s Age at Every Big Moment

One of the best ways to understand a cricketer’s age is to lay it against his career. Rohit debuted young, waited years for a settled place, and then peaked late — his greatest innings and his biggest trophies as captain both came in his thirties. The table below puts a number on each step.

Age Date Moment
20 June 2007 ODI debut for India against Ireland in Belfast
20 September 2007 Part of India’s winning squad at the first T20 World Cup in South Africa
21 2008–2009 IPL debut with Deccan Chargers; wins the IPL title in 2009
23 May 2010 First ODI century, against Zimbabwe in Bulawayo
24 2011 Left out of India’s ODI World Cup squad — the famous snub that reshaped his career
26 November 2013 Test debut against the West Indies at Eden Gardens, scoring a century; first ODI double century (209 vs Australia) the same month
27 November 2014 264 against Sri Lanka at Eden Gardens — still the highest individual score in ODI history
28 2015 Plays the ODI World Cup in Australia and New Zealand; India reach the semi-final
28 December 2015 Marries Ritika Sajdeh
30 December 2017 Third ODI double century (208 not out vs Sri Lanka); appointed Mumbai Indians captain years earlier, wins IPL titles in 2013, 2015 and 2017
32 2019 Five centuries at the ODI World Cup in England — a tournament record for one edition
34 December 2021 Takes over as India’s full-time ODI captain
36 November 2023 Captains India to the ODI World Cup final at home; India lose to Australia
37 June 2024 Captains India to the T20 World Cup title in Barbados, then retires from T20 internationals
37 March 2025 Captains India to the Champions Trophy title in Dubai
38 May 2025 Retires from Test cricket; Shubman Gill takes over as Test captain
38 October 2025 ODI captaincy passes to Shubman Gill; Rohit stays in the squad as a specialist opener
39 30 April 2026 Turns 39; the BCCI posts birthday wishes
39 30 September 2026 101 vs West Indies in Guwahati — 35th ODI century and 12,000 ODI runs
39 7 November 2026 Breaks Shahid Afridi’s record for most ODI sixes against New Zealand
40 30 April 2027 Turns 40 — six months before the 2027 ODI World Cup

Look at the shape of that table and one pattern jumps out: Rohit’s twenties were about waiting, and his thirties were about winning. He made his ODI debut at 20 but did not become a regular opener until he was 26, when the move to the top of the order in the 2013 Champions Trophy changed everything. His first double century came at 26, the 264 at 27, and his five World Cup centuries at 32. The captaincy, the T20 World Cup, the Champions Trophy — all of it arrived after 34. Most batters peak at 28 or 29 and fade; Rohit peaked in his mid-thirties and is still producing match-winning innings at 39. That late peak is the reason his age reads as a story rather than a countdown.

Early Life: From Nagpur to Mumbai

Rohit Gurunath Sharma was born on 30 April 1987 in Bansod, a locality in Nagpur, Maharashtra. His father, Gurunath Sharma, worked as a caretaker at a transport firm, and the family lived modestly. Rohit spent much of his childhood with his grandparents in Borivali, Mumbai, while his parents stayed in Nagpur — a separation that shaped his early years and the discipline that followed. He began playing cricket seriously at school, and the move to Mumbai put him in the middle of the city’s famously competitive school cricket scene.

The turning point came at Swami Vivekanand International School in Borivali, where coach Dinesh Lad spotted him. Lad saw a talented off-spinner who could bat a bit, and he made the call that changed Rohit’s life: he told the boy to concentrate on batting. The school offered Rohit a scholarship, which mattered a great deal to a family that could not easily afford Mumbai’s cricket fees, and Lad worked on his technique through his teens. Rohit repaid that faith quickly, scoring heavily in school cricket and then in Mumbai’s age-group teams, where his timing — the quality that still defines him — stood out against bowlers who were faster and stronger than him.

He made his first-class debut for Mumbai in the 2006–07 season, aged 19, and scored a century against Gujarat in only his second match. The selectors noticed. Within a year he was in the India ODI squad, and by September 2007 he was part of the team that won the first T20 World Cup in South Africa, scoring an unbeaten 50 against the hosts in Durban. He was 20 years old, a World Cup winner, and — as the next few years would show — still a long way from a settled place in the side.

The full story of that climb, from the one-room childhood in Borivali to the top of the Indian batting order, is told in depth in Rohit Sharma’s full biography on GuideNetWorth, our sister site’s long-form profile of the same man. What matters for the age question is the timing: Rohit was a teenage prodigy who became a senior pro slowly, and the slow start is why his thirties look so productive. He did not burn out young, because he was never overplayed young.

Career Rise, Age by Age

Rohit’s twenties were a study in patience. He debuted in ODIs in June 2007 at 20, but for the next five years he drifted in and out of the side, batting in the middle order, sometimes dropped for months, and never quite trusted with a fixed role. The low point came in 2011, when he was left out of India’s World Cup squad at 23. India won that tournament at home, and Rohit watched it from the outside. He has spoken since about how much that omission hurt, and how it forced him to rebuild his game and his fitness. It is the single most important date in understanding his career: the snub at 23 produced the opener at 26.

The rebuild happened in 2013. MS Dhoni and the team management moved Rohit to open the batting in the Champions Trophy in England, and the gamble worked at once — India won the tournament, and Rohit had a role that fitted his game. Opening gave him time to settle, the new ball to drive, and the fielding restrictions to exploit. In November 2013, aged 26, he scored 209 against Australia in Bangalore, his first ODI double century, and days later he made a century on Test debut against the West Indies at Eden Gardens. Two formats, two landmarks, one month. He was 26, and finally, unmistakably, a first-choice Indian cricketer.

The Mumbai Indians story ran alongside. Rohit had joined the franchise in 2011, and in 2013 he was handed the captaincy mid-season after a poor start. Mumbai won the title that year, then again in 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2020 — five IPL titles as captain, six in total as a player when the 2009 title with Deccan Chargers is counted. He was 26 when he first lifted the trophy as captain and 33 when he lifted the fifth. The IPL made him rich, famous and tactically sharp, and it taught him the captaincy skills he would later use for India. His retention price tells the same story: Mumbai Indians kept him for ₹16.30 crore per season in both 2025 and 2026, and his cumulative IPL contract earnings from 2008 through 2026 total ₹230.14 crore, according to Cricbuzz’s IPL salary records cited by Celebrity Net Worth.

By 2019, aged 32, Rohit was producing the best batting of his life. At the ODI World Cup in England he scored five centuries in a single tournament — a record no batter had managed before — and finished as the tournament’s leading run-scorer. He was 32, an age at which many openers are already slowing down, and he was getting better. The 2020s then brought the captaincy: full-time ODI captain from December 2021 at 34, Test captain after Virat Kohli stepped down, and T20I captain through the 2024 World Cup. The honours piled up late — the T20 World Cup in Barbados in June 2024 at 37, the Champions Trophy in Dubai in March 2025 at 37 — and each one pushed the question of his age further into the background.

The 264 and the Records That Followed

No account of Rohit Sharma’s age is complete without the innings that made him immortal, and it happened when he was 27. On 13 November 2014, against Sri Lanka at Eden Gardens in Kolkata, Rohit scored 264 from 173 balls — the highest individual score in the history of one-day international cricket, a record that still stands in November 2026, twelve years later. He hit 33 fours and 9 sixes. It was his second ODI double century, after the 209 against Australia a year earlier, and it sealed a reputation: no batter in the format has ever scored as many runs in a single innings, and no batter has three ODI double centuries. The third came in December 2017, 208 not out against Sri Lanka in Mohali, when he was 30.

The records kept coming, and they are the reason his age is discussed with respect rather than pity. He holds the record for the most sixes in ODI cricket history, and the most in T20 internationals too. In September 2026 he became the seventh batter in men’s ODI history to reach 12,000 runs, and only the third Indian after Sachin Tendulkar and Virat Kohli — the innings that took him there, 101 off 75 balls against the West Indies in Guwahati on 30 September 2026, was also his 35th ODI century. Sportskeeda’s report on that match noted he was the second-fastest batter ever to 12,000 ODI runs, and that at 39 years and 153 days he had become the oldest batter to score a one-day hundred in India, passing Sunil Gavaskar’s mark of 38 years and 113 days. He also passed 200 ODI sixes on home soil in the same innings, a first for any cricketer.

Illustration of an Indian opening batter playing a pull shot under floodlights in a packed stadium
The pull shot that built a career: Rohit’s 264 in 2014 remains the highest ODI score ever, and his six-hitting records keep growing at 39. (Illustration: Celebamerica)

November 2026 added another line to the list. In the second ODI against New Zealand at Wellington on 7 November, the 39-year-old opener cleared the boundary twice in a knock of 23 off 28 balls, taking his career tally of sixes against New Zealand in ODIs to 51 — past Shahid Afridi’s record for the most ODI sixes against that opponent. It was a small innings, statistically, but it captured the late-career pattern: even in a quiet knock, a record falls. The numbers below give the scale of what a 39-year-old is still defending.

Record or Landmark Detail
Highest ODI score 264 vs Sri Lanka, Eden Gardens, November 2014 (age 27) — still the world record
ODI double centuries Three (209, 264, 208 not out) — the only batter in history with three
ODI runs 12,000+; seventh batter in men’s ODI history, third Indian (September 2026, age 39)
ODI centuries 35, including five at the 2019 World Cup — a single-tournament record
ODI sixes Most in ODI history; most sixes against New Zealand (51), past Afridi in November 2026
T20 World Cups Winner 2007 (age 20, as a player) and 2024 (age 37, as captain)
Champions Trophies Winner 2013 (age 26, as opener) and 2025 (age 37, as captain)
IPL titles Six as a player — 2009 with Deccan Chargers; 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2020 as Mumbai Indians captain

There is a lesson in that table for anyone who treats 39 as a finishing line. Rohit’s best innings came at 27, his best tournament at 32, his biggest trophies as captain at 37, and his 12,000th run at 39. His career has not followed the usual arc of early peak and slow decline; it has climbed in steps, with each step arriving later than expected. That is why the selectors’ age debate keeps running into the same problem: the evidence on the field refuses to match the number on the birth certificate.

Captaincy and the 2025 Change

For most of his thirties, Rohit Sharma was India’s captain in one format or another. He took over as full-time ODI captain in December 2021, aged 34, and led India to the final of the 2023 ODI World Cup at home, where Australia beat them in Ahmedabad. He then won the two trophies that had eluded India for over a decade: the T20 World Cup in Barbados in June 2024, aged 37, and the Champions Trophy in Dubai in March 2025, aged 37. The T20 win was followed at once by his retirement from T20 internationals, announced on the night of the final. The Test retirement came in May 2025, aged 38, just before India’s tour of England, and Shubman Gill took over as Test captain.

The ODI captaincy ended on 4 October 2025, when the BCCI announced that Gill would lead the one-day side for the Australia series starting 19 October in Perth. Rohit was 38, and the decision surprised plenty of people — he had just won the Champions Trophy as captain seven months earlier, and former spinner Harbhajan Singh said publicly that he was shocked to see Rohit removed after winning a trophy. Chief selector Ajit Agarkar defended the call at the squad announcement, framing it around the 2027 World Cup and the need to settle a younger captain in good time. The board’s logic was plain: Gill was 26, already Test captain, and the man they wanted leading the side in South Africa in 2027. Rohit stayed in the squad as a specialist opener, alongside Virat Kohli, and the pair returned to international cricket after a break of more than seven months.

How has Rohit handled the change? With the humour that has always been his public trademark. On his television show, Family Full House with Rohit Sharma, which debuted in September 2026, he joked in October 2026 that Gill is his captain now and that he has to keep both Gill and Shreyas Iyer happy if he wants to play the 2027 World Cup. The joke landed because it was honest: he has said plainly that he wants to play in 2027, and that the decision now sits with the selectors. Shubman Gill’s age profile on Celebamerica sets out the other side of the handover — a 26-year-old captain taking charge of a side that still leans on a 39-year-old opener.

The change also reshaped his workload, and in a way that may have helped him. Freed from the captaincy and from Tests and T20Is, Rohit now plays only ODIs and the IPL. That is a light schedule for an international cricketer, and it is one reason his batting has stayed sharp at 39: he arrives at each ODI series rested, with time to work on fitness between assignments. The selectors’ gamble was that a younger captain plus a veteran opener would give India both a future and a present. The first year of evidence — the West Indies hundreds, the New Zealand sixes record — suggests the present is in safe hands.

Rohit Sharma in 2026: Still Scoring at 39

The 2026 season is the strongest evidence yet that Rohit’s age is a talking point, not a verdict. He turned 39 on 30 April 2026, with the BCCI’s birthday post marking the day, and then went out and played some of the best one-day cricket of his late career. The headline act was the West Indies home series in late September and early October. In the second ODI at Guwahati on 30 September, chasing a huge target of 406, Rohit smashed 101 from 75 balls, with ten fours and six sixes, and shared a 255-run opening stand with Shubman Gill, who made 223 not out. India completed the second-highest successful chase in ODI history, reaching 406 for 2 in 43.3 overs. Rohit’s hundred was his 35th in ODIs and the innings that took him past 12,000 runs. Across the three-match series he scored 32, 101 and 92 — the kind of return a 25-year-old opener would be proud of.

The form carried into November. In the home ODI series against New Zealand, Rohit broke Shahid Afridi’s record for the most sixes against New Zealand in ODIs during the second match in Wellington on 7 November 2026, and the series itself — five ODIs starting 4 November — kept him in the headlines through the month. Between the two series, the picture was consistent: a 39-year-old opener scoring at a strike rate above 100, clearing the ropes at will, and doing it against the best attacks in the world. SportsTiger’s October 2026 analysis of his late career put it well: at 39, Rohit no longer needs to prove he can bat for 40 or 45 overs, and his role has shifted from accumulation to acceleration — he attacks early, sets the tempo, and lets Gill or the middle order finish the job.

Off the field, 2026 brought a new venture. In September 2026 he made his television hosting debut with Family Full House with Rohit Sharma, a show that mixes cricket and family life and has given fans a look at the lighter side of a cricketer known for his dry humour. The show also produced one of the year’s most quoted moments, when Rohit joked about keeping his captains happy to stay in the side for 2027. It was self-deprecating, it was funny, and it showed a 39-year-old entirely comfortable with his place in the team — not a fading star clinging on, but a senior pro who knows exactly what he still offers.

The IPL picture in 2026 fits the same pattern. Mumbai Indians retained him for ₹16.30 crore for the season, the same figure as 2025, and he remains the franchise’s senior batter and spiritual leader even though the captaincy now sits with Hardik Pandya. His IPL career earnings, at ₹230.14 crore in cumulative contract value through 2026, make him one of the highest-paid players in the tournament’s history. At 39, he is still a first-choice pick for the richest franchise in the world’s richest league — a market verdict that carries as much weight as any selector’s opinion.

The 2027 World Cup Question

Every conversation about Rohit Sharma’s age ends at the same place: will he play the 2027 ODI World Cup? The tournament is scheduled for October and November 2027 in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Namibia. Rohit will be 40 years and about five months old when it begins, and 40 and a half by the final. One Bhaskar English analysis from 2026 put the number bluntly — he will turn more than 40.5 years old during the tournament — and listed it among the reasons the selectors might have moved on. No Indian batter has ever played a World Cup at 40. Sachin Tendulkar played his last World Cup at 37, in 2011, and won it. MS Dhoni played his last at 37, in 2019. Rohit would be breaking new ground for Indian cricket simply by being picked.

The case for picking him is the batting. His 2026 form — the West Indies hundreds, the 12,000-run landmark, the sixes records — shows a player still capable of winning matches against top sides. His experience matters too: he has played four ODI World Cups (2015, 2019, 2023, and the 2007 T20 edition as a youngster), captained one, and scored five centuries in a single edition. In a tournament played in South African conditions, where the ball swings early and the pitches reward patience, an opener who has seen everything carries real value. And his own words leave no doubt about his intent: he has confirmed his availability for 2027 and said he wants to experience the feeling of winning a World Cup again.

The case against is the calendar and the fielding. One-day cricket at 40 demands long days in the field, sharp running between the wickets, and recovery from back-to-back matches in a tournament that lasts six weeks. The selectors have already shown their direction of travel by handing Gill the captaincy, and the emergence of younger openers such as Yashasvi Jaiswal gives them options they did not have two years ago. Fitness, not age, will decide it — that was BCCI president Mithun Manhas’s point in October 2026, and it is the fairest way to frame the decision. If Rohit stays fit and keeps scoring through the IPL and the ODI series of 2027, the selectors will find it very hard to leave out a 40-year-old with 12,000 ODI runs. If the runs dry up, the age question will answer itself.

Our best reading, as of November 2026, is that the door is open but not guaranteed. Rohit is in the squad, in form, and publicly committed to 2027. The next twelve months — the IPL, the ODI series against the leading sides, and his own fitness — will settle it. Whatever happens, his age at the 2027 World Cup, 40, would itself be a record for an Indian outfield player, and the attempt is worth following on its own terms.

Rohit Sharma’s Net Worth at 39

Age and money are linked in Rohit’s case, because his wealth was built slowly and is still growing. The published estimates for his net worth in 2026 cluster in a narrow band, and this article uses that band rather than a single figure. Celebrity Net Worth puts him at $25 million. Jagran Josh, in a March 2026 report, put him at ₹214–230 crore, roughly $25.7–28 million. Our sister site’s biography of Rohit, published in October 2026, used the same range — ₹214–230 crore, about $26–28 million — anchored to IPL.com’s ₹214 crore figure and Jagran Josh’s range, and treating higher figures up to ₹350 crore as outliers built on gross asset values without deducting liabilities. The honest summary is this: Rohit Sharma’s estimated net worth in 2026 is $25–28 million, about ₹214–230 crore. The bottom of the range is the most widely repeated figure; the top reflects broader asset counts.

Where does the money come from? The biggest single pile is the IPL. His cumulative contract earnings from 2008 through 2026 total ₹230.14 crore, per Cricbuzz’s salary records, and Mumbai Indians retained him at ₹16.30 crore per season in 2025 and 2026 — about $1.9 million a year at the exchange rates around those contracts. The BCCI central contract is smaller now than it was: after his Test retirement he was moved to Grade B for the 2025–26 cycle, which carried a retainer of ₹3 crore a year under the board’s previous structure, down from the ₹7 crore Grade A+ retainer he held before. He also earns ₹6 lakh per ODI match in match fees, per IPL.com’s 2026 breakdown.

Illustration of a golden cricket trophy with a bat and ball on a navy pedestal with gold confetti
Two ICC trophies as captain, five IPL titles with Mumbai Indians — the silverware behind a $25–28 million fortune. (Illustration: Celebamerica)

Endorsements are the second engine, and by some counts the largest annual one. Reports collected by IPL.com and CricketWinner put his brand income at roughly ₹60–65 crore a year, across a portfolio of more than 25 brands that includes Adidas, CEAT, and, in 2026, new deals with Dharmaj Crop Guard in February and Freyr Energy in September. Forbes India’s 2019 Celebrity 100 list credited him with ₹54.29 crore in annual earnings that year, and the endorsement pile has grown since. The full breakdown of his income streams, contracts and assets is set out in detail in our sister site’s money profile on GuideNetWorth, which anchors the same $26 million figure this page uses.

Property is the third leg. His real estate is reported at more than ₹50 crore, including the family home in Mumbai, and in December 2025 his wife Ritika bought an additional apartment in Ahuja Towers for ₹26.3 crore, per Celebrity Net Worth’s reporting. His car collection is widely reported but the individual values are not reliably sourced, so this article does not put a number on it. The same caution applies to his business stakes: he holds investments and brand-linked ventures, but no audited figure exists, and no outlet with access to his private accounts has published one. Anyone quoting a single exact net worth for Rohit Sharma — $25 million, $26 million, ₹350 crore — is choosing one estimate and hiding the rest. The range is the honest answer, and the range is $25–28 million.

Income or Asset Estimated Value (2026)
Estimated net worth $25–28 million (about ₹214–230 crore)
IPL salary (Mumbai Indians) ₹16.30 crore per season (2025 and 2026)
Cumulative IPL contract earnings ₹230.14 crore (2008–2026, Cricbuzz records)
BCCI central contract Grade B, ₹3 crore retainer (2025–26 cycle)
ODI match fee ₹6 lakh per match
Brand endorsements About ₹60–65 crore a year (reported)
Real estate More than ₹50 crore (reported); Ahuja Towers apartment ₹26.3 crore (December 2025)

One more money fact belongs in an age article: Rohit is still earning at a rate most 39-year-old athletes would envy. His IPL retention alone, ₹16.30 crore a season, is more than many international cricketers earn in a year, and his endorsement income is reported at roughly four times that. Age has not cut his earning power, because his earning power was never built on speed or youth — it was built on runs, trophies and a public image that sponsors trust. That is the quiet financial story of his late career: the numbers on the field stayed high, so the numbers off it did too.

Family and Life Off the Field

Rohit married Ritika Sajdeh in December 2015, when he was 28. Ritika, a sports manager by profession, had known him for years before the wedding, and she has been a steady presence through the busiest decade of his career. Their daughter, Samaira, was born in December 2018, when Rohit was 31; their son, Ahan, was born in November 2024, when he was 37. Becoming a father for the second time at 37, in the middle of a season that included a T20 World Cup win and a Test retirement, is one of the quieter facts of his late career — and it helps explain the calm that people around the team keep describing. He has spoken about wanting to be present for his children, and about how fatherhood changed his sense of what matters beyond the next series.

The family lives in Mumbai, the city where Rohit grew up as a cricketer, and his parents remain close to him. His father, Gurunath, worked as a caretaker at a transport firm, and Rohit has often credited his parents’ sacrifices for his career — the school fees, the travel, the years of living apart while he stayed with his grandparents in Borivali. That background is part of why his story resonates so widely: he was not a product of privilege or a famous cricketing family, but a boy from Nagpur whose talent was spotted by a school coach and carried, step by step, to the top of the game.

His height is a question that follows him almost as often as his age, and it is worth settling here. Rohit Sharma is listed at 5 ft 7 in (170 cm) in the standard player profiles, a shade shorter than many of his opening partners. Rohit Sharma’s height profile on Celebamerica covers the numbers in full, including how he compares with the other Indian batters. For the age question, the height matters only in one way: at 5 ft 7 in and 39 years old, he is not a physical specimen by modern standards, and he has never needed to be. His game is built on timing, balance and hand-eye coordination — qualities that fade far more slowly than raw pace or power, and that is a large part of why he is still scoring at 39.

Rohit Sharma vs His Peers: Age Compared

Age only means something in comparison, and Rohit’s generation of Indian cricketers gives a useful yardstick. The table below sets his age against the men he has shared dressing rooms with for nearly two decades, with ages as of November 2026.

Player Born Age (Nov 2026) Status
Rohit Sharma 30 April 1987 39 Playing ODIs only; 12,000+ ODI runs
Virat Kohli 5 November 1988 38 Playing ODIs only; retired from Tests and T20Is in 2024–25
MS Dhoni 7 July 1981 45 Retired from internationals in 2020; still playing IPL for Chennai Super Kings
Shubman Gill 8 September 1999 27 India Test and ODI captain
Sachin Tendulkar 24 April 1973 53 Retired 2013; last World Cup at 37 (2011)
Jasprit Bumrah 6 December 1993 32 India’s lead fast bowler across formats

Two comparisons stand out. The first is with Virat Kohli, his partner through the great Indian batting era. Kohli was born 5 November 1988, which makes him 18 months younger than Rohit — he turned 38 on 5 November 2026, five days before this article was written. The pair have retired from the same two formats in the same period, and both now play only ODIs, so their late careers are running on parallel tracks. Virat Kohli’s age profile on Celebamerica tells his side of that story, and Virat Kohli’s net worth profile on Celebamerica sets out how the two men’s fortunes compare — Kohli’s is far larger, built on a bigger endorsement empire and a longer run at the top of the game’s commercial pyramid.

The second comparison is with MS Dhoni, who was 39 when he retired from international cricket in August 2020 and is still playing the IPL at 45. Dhoni’s example is the one Rohit’s supporters reach for: if a wicketkeeper can play franchise cricket at 45, an opener with Rohit’s technique can surely play ODIs at 40. The counter-example is Tendulkar, who played his last World Cup at 37 and retired at 40, having slowed visibly in his final years. Rohit’s path sits between the two — a specialist batter in one format, rested between series, with a game built on timing rather than athleticism. For readers who want the wider picture of Indian cricketers at this age, our celebrity profiles on Celebamerica cover the generation in full.

What Fans Get Wrong About Rohit Sharma’s Age

Three misunderstandings keep showing up in searches and social media, and each one is worth correcting plainly.

First, the 2011 World Cup. Some summaries credit Rohit with a 2011 ODI World Cup win. He did not play in it — he was left out of the squad at 23, and India won the tournament without him. His World Cup story is different and, in its own way, more impressive: he played the 2015, 2019 and 2023 editions, scored five centuries in 2019, and captained India to the 2023 final. The 2011 snub is not a gap in his record; it is the event that remade his career, and any profile that lists him as a 2011 winner is wrong.

Second, the captaincy. Search results from early 2026 still describe Rohit as India’s ODI captain. He is not. Shubman Gill took over the ODI captaincy on 4 October 2025, and Rohit now plays as a specialist opener under Gill’s leadership. He remains a former captain — of the ODI, Test and T20I sides — and a World Cup-winning captain, but the current captain is Gill. Any article that still calls Rohit the ODI captain is out of date.

Third, the net worth figures. A single number for Rohit Sharma’s wealth — $25 million, $26 million, ₹214 crore, ₹350 crore — will appear on many pages, each presented as fact. None of them is a verified figure, because no audited statement of his wealth exists. The responsible answer is the range this article uses, $25–28 million (about ₹214–230 crore), with Celebrity Net Worth at the bottom and Jagran Josh’s range at the top. The ₹350 crore figures that circulate come from gross asset counts that do not deduct liabilities, and they should be treated as outliers.

One more small correction, for completeness: a few databases list a birth year of 1993 or 1994 for a player named Rohit Sharma. That is a different cricketer — a domestic player from Jammu — and his details have leaked into some search results under the famous name. The India opener was born on 30 April 1987. If a source disagrees with that date, the source is describing the wrong man.

FAQs About Rohit Sharma’s Age

How old is Rohit Sharma in 2026?

Rohit Sharma is 39 years old in November 2026. He was born on 30 April 1987 and turned 39 on 30 April 2026. He turns 40 on 30 April 2027.

When is Rohit Sharma’s birthday?

Rohit Sharma’s birthday is 30 April. He was born on 30 April 1987 in Bansod, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India, and the BCCI posted birthday wishes for him when he turned 39 on 30 April 2026.

How old was Rohit Sharma when he made his ODI debut?

Rohit Sharma was 20 years old when he made his ODI debut for India against Ireland in Belfast in June 2007. He had already been part of the T20 World Cup-winning squad in South Africa in September 2007, aged 20, but he did not become a regular opener until he was 26, in 2013.

Is Rohit Sharma still playing cricket at 39?

Yes. Rohit Sharma is still playing ODI cricket for India at 39, as a specialist opening batter. He retired from T20 internationals in June 2024 and from Test cricket in May 2025, so ODIs and the IPL are the only cricket he plays now. In September 2026 he scored 101 against the West Indies and passed 12,000 ODI runs, and in November 2026 he broke Shahid Afridi’s record for the most ODI sixes against New Zealand.

Will Rohit Sharma play the 2027 ODI World Cup?

It is not decided yet. Rohit has confirmed he wants to play the 2027 ODI World Cup in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Namibia, where he would be 40 years old. BCCI president Mithun Manhas said in October 2026 that fitness and performance, not age, should decide selection. His form through 2026 and the IPL in 2027 will settle it.

How old is Rohit Sharma compared to Virat Kohli?

Rohit Sharma is about 18 months older than Virat Kohli. Rohit was born on 30 April 1987 and is 39 in November 2026; Kohli was born on 5 November 1988 and turned 38 on 5 November 2026. Both retired from Tests and T20Is and now play only ODIs for India.

What is Rohit Sharma’s net worth at 39?

Rohit Sharma’s estimated net worth in 2026 is $25–28 million, about ₹214–230 crore. Celebrity Net Worth puts him at $25 million, while Jagran Josh reported ₹214–230 crore in March 2026. His main income is his Mumbai Indians IPL contract of ₹16.30 crore a season, plus a BCCI Grade B retainer and roughly ₹60–65 crore a year from endorsements, as reported by Indian outlets.

How tall is Rohit Sharma?

Rohit Sharma is listed at 5 ft 7 in (170 cm) tall in the standard player profiles. His height has never been a feature of his game — his batting is built on timing, balance and hand-eye coordination rather than reach or power, which is one reason he is still scoring centuries at 39.

Final Thoughts

Rohit Sharma is 39 years old, and the number tells you less about him than almost any other cricketer of his generation. He debuted at 20, waited until 26 to find his place, peaked in his thirties, won his biggest trophies as captain at 37, and passed 12,000 ODI runs at 39. The calendar says he should be finished. The scoreboard says otherwise: 101 against the West Indies in Guwahati, a sixes record against New Zealand in Wellington, and a place in India’s ODI side that nobody has yet taken from him.

Whether he plays the 2027 World Cup at 40 is a question for the selectors, his fitness and the next twelve months of cricket. What is already settled is the shape of the career: a boy from Nagpur who was left out of a home World Cup at 23, rebuilt himself into the greatest ODI opener of his era, and is still, at 39, doing the thing he has always done best — walking out first, watching the ball, and hitting it further than anyone else in the ground.

Sources and Reporting

How we estimated: Rohit Sharma’s age is a matter of public record — his date of birth, 30 April 1987, is confirmed by the BCCI, ESPNcricinfo data, Cricbuzz and the major Indian sports outlets. His net worth is an estimate, not a verified figure: no audited statement exists, so this article publishes the range $25–28 million (about ₹214–230 crore), anchored to Celebrity Net Worth ($25 million) and Jagran Josh (₹214–230 crore, March 2026), with higher figures up to ₹350 crore treated as outliers because they count gross assets without deducting liabilities. Match figures — the 264, the 12,000 runs, the 35 centuries, the IPL contract values — come from dated 2026 reporting and standard cricket records, and are named in the text where they appear. Estimates may differ from private reality, and this page will be corrected if better reporting emerges.

Sources consulted: Celebrity Net Worth, Jagran Josh, Cricbuzz, ESPNcricinfo, IPL, LatestLY, SportsTiger, Sportskeeda, Yardbarker, Bhaskar English, MyKhel, Circle of Cricket. Sister-site profiles: GuideNetWorth.

By Celebamerica Editorial Staff. Corrections: write to the site through the contact page and the figure will be checked against the sources above.