The Hitman: The Rohit Sharma Story | Review: An elegant batsman and person
There is a different side to this passion. Imagine how tough it is to create a place for yourself from among those several thousands aspiring cricketers. It is even tougher when a budding player comes with the prefix of prodigy. Rohit Sharma would have known it for himself.
Always a batsman destined to scale dizzying heights, Rohit’s journey to the top was not entirely smooth. There were failures, criticisms, trolls, time spent outside the team, but the stone-cold determination beneath that easy-going exterior helped him carve a space for himself in world cricket.
The journey is captured in ‘The Hitman, The Rohit Sharma Story’ jointly authored by veteran sports journalists Vijay Lokapally and G Krishnan, both of whom have seen the growth of Rohit from close quarters.
The writers unbox some rare pictures of Rohit through the words of his teammates and friends – a jovial man, someone who is ice cool under pressure, a prankster, and a fiercely competitive, proud and skilled cricketer who keeps working on his game to stay at the top.
Rohit has developed into a batsman supreme from the time he made his ODI debut against Ireland at Belfast in 2007. He is elegant and devastating at the same time. After all, he is the only batsman to have scored three double hundreds in ODI cricket, and the book gives a glimpse of his immense hunger for runs right from the junior cricket.
