Rohit Sharma is regarded as one of the world’s top white-ball cricket players. But, the naturally talented batsman discovered that he was the best skipper in the Indian Premier League.
Nobody could have predicted the outcomes when Rohit was named the Mumbai Indians‘ captain in 2013. Mumbai Indians are the only team to date to accomplish this significant feat, and Rohit has guided the group to the championship podium five times.
Regarding Rohit Sharma’s individual accomplishments in the competition, the Indian skipper had been the top batter for the Deccan Chargers throughout the first three IPL seasons before being transferred to MI in 2011.
See Rohit Sharma’s IPL batting statistics by year in the table below.
Rohit Sharma IPL Runs Year by Year
Statistic Insights
The hitman has been at his finest when hitting those over-the-rope boundaries, despite having just one IPL season with an average of 40 or higher. He is the most prolific Indian player in terms of sixes in the IPL.
Rohit Sharma, the man with the most centuries in T20 Internationals, has only one century in IPL. The Mumbai batsman’s lone IPL century came against Kolkata Knight Riders in 2012 while playing for MI.
Rohit also became the first-ever player to score more than 1000 runs against a single team in IPL when he crossed the landmark four-digit total against KKR.
He is also the only Indian player who scored a century and took a hat-trick in the IPL. Find the list of IPL hat-tricks here.
In bowling, Rohit has picked 15 wickets in the tournament. Fourteen of those came during his first three years playing in Deccan Chargers. He also has the best bowling figure of 4/6.
