He was a member of the Indian team that won the 2007 inaugural ICC T20 World Cup, where in the final, he took the winning wicket of Misbah-ul-Haq.

A bowling all rounder, he played as a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-fast bowler and captained his state, Haryana.

[9] Having scored two successive centuries, and securing a 14/116 in the 2004/05 Ranji Trophy against Vidarbha,[10] Sharma won his place in the Indian side for the Bangladesh tour.

He had limited batting opportunities, scoring 34 in two brief knocks at the end of the innings without being dismissed, but his bowling was ineffective, taking 1/99, and was dropped after playing in that ODI series.

[15] Despite being unable to prevent Haryana from being relegated to the Plate division, he was recalled in January 2007 to the team at the expense of Irfan Pathan for the ODI series against the West Indies.

[15] He was selected for the second ODI in Cuttack, but after scoring 1 and failing to take a wicket,[11] Pathan was immediately recalled and Sharma dropped.

He is, as of June 2020[update], a Deputy Superintendent of Police located in Pehowa in the Kurukshetra district of Haryana.