Rohit Sharma credits former BCCI selector for supporting him during tough times

Former India captain Rohit Sharma credited former BCCI chief selector Dilip Vengsarkar and mentor Vasoo Paranjpe for discovering and guiding his early cricket career. Speaking on his television program, The Rohit Sharma Show, he expressed lifelong gratitude to Vengsarkar for selecting him for the national team in 2007, noting that Paranjpe previously championed his Mumbai age-group cricket development.

Sharma retired from T20Is following India's 2024 T20 World Cup title and later stepped away from Test cricket, currently remaining active exclusively in ODIs ahead of the 2027 World Cup. Across his international career, Sharma accumulated 4,301 Test runs, 4,231 T20I runs, and over 12,000 runs in the ODI format.