[7] His first major innings in first class cricket was a 173 in the Duleep Trophy for the North, against the South Zone which had Chandrasekhar, Erapalli Prasanna and Venkataraghavan.

[7] His knock of 99 in the Irani Trophy helped secure a place for him in the Indian team in a tour of Pakistan a few weeks later.

He batted through the full second day of the match with Gundappa Viswanath and their third-wicket partnership contributed 316 runs.

[16] At Port of Spain next year, he was struck on the head by Malcolm Marshall and forced to retire.

Sharma very much won the day for them, and he recounted that he had a volley of marks on his chest from Malcolm Marshall's short-pitched bowling.

[20] In the semifinal against England he again top scored with 61 – a flick over square leg for six off a near yorker from Bob Willis being a memorable shot.

[21][22] He was part of the Indian team which won its maiden World Cup tournament which eventually came during the 1983 campaign.

In the three-day match for North Zone against the West Indies at Amritsar, he hit Viv Richards for four consecutive sixes.

[29] However, Chappell remarked that his spat with Ganguly was "blown out of proportion" and went on to say, "He [Yashpal] was frustrated that he lost a job which he obviously wanted to keep.

[36] A Bollywood film titled 83 released in 2021 about the event of India's first world cup win at Lords.

The film features Jatin Sarna as Sharma and is directed and produced by Kabir Khan and Anurag Kashyap respectively.