[4] In November 2022, he was sacked from the position of BCCI national chief selector after team India's exit from the 2022 T20 World Cup.

He also is one of the few Indian pacers, like his mentor Kapil Dev, to take a 5 wicket haul in his 32-over spell to end with 5-64 and also have his name permanently etched in the Hall of Fame board at Lord's Cricket Ground.

For his ability to get useful runs down the order that too at quick rate, Sharma was seen as a natural successor to Kapil Dev in the all-rounder category.

Sharma is infamously remembered for bowling the last ball to Pakistani batting great Javed Miandad in the final of the Austral-Asia cup in Sharjah in 1986.

With Pakistan needing four runs to win off the final ball, Sharma bowled a low full toss outside the leg stump, and Miandad's towering, last-ball six constituted the first instance until then that an international game had ended in that manner.

In the Reliance World Cup in 1987, Sharma took the first hat-trick in the history of tournament when he clean bowled Ken Rutherford, Ian Smith and Ewen Chatfield of New Zealand off consecutive balls.

In one of his last international appearances, against New Zealand in a three nations tournament in 1994 he ended up with figures of 1–0–23–0 after being hit for five fours off consecutive balls by Stephen Fleming.

[5] In February 2023, he courted controversy when he got filmed in a sting operation which alleged that Indian cricketers take injections to expedite their return to the national team, despite being only 80 to 85% fit; he also revealed that Virat Kohli lied to media in 2021 that BCCI removed him from ODI captaincy without discussing to defame then BCCI president Sourav Ganguly.