Rohit Sharma, the successful Mumbai Indians’ (MI) captain, became the fourth cricketer to reach the 6000 IPL runs milestone during their away victory against the hosts SunRisers Hyderabad (SRH) last Tuesday (18 April) night.
After SRH sent the five-time IPL winners to bat first, MI skipper Rohit Sharma provided a good start with 28 runs off 18 balls (six fours). Before the left-arm pacer Thangarasu Natarajan dismissed him in the fifth over of the innings, Rohit had a 41-run opening partnership with Ishan Kishan.
During that little but impactful batting performance, Rohit completed 6000 runs in his IPL career. The right-handed batter has scored 6014 runs in 227 IPL innings (232 IPL matches).
Here are some crucial stats of Rohit Sharma’s 6000 IPL runs completion
Fourth batter to score 6000 IPL runs.
Third Indian to reach the 6000 runs milestone in IPL career.
After Virat Kohli, Rohit became the second right-handed batter to record 6000 IPL runs.
Third quickest to complete 6000 IPL runs (by balls played).
Player | Nationality | Balls to complete 6000 IPL runs |
David Warner | Australian | 4285 |
Virat Kohli | Indian | 4595 |
Rohit Sharma | Indian | 4616 |
Shikhar Dhawan | Indian | 4738 |
Slowest to complete 6000 IPL runs (by innings played).
Player | Nationality | Innings to complete 6000 IPL runs |
David Warner | Australian | 165 |
Virat Kohli | Indian | 188 |
Shikhar Dhawan | Indian | 199 |
Rohit Sharma | Indian | 227 |
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Mumbai Indians won by 14 runs
Cameron Green scored 64 not out off 40 balls (six fours and two sixes), while the opener Ishan scored 38 off 31 balls (three fours and two sixes), and the “Impact Player” Tilak Varma had a strong influence with 37 runs off just 17 balls (two fours and four sixes). Their batting helped Mumbai Indians to manage the strong first batting total of 192/5 in 20 overs.
In reply, though the opener Mayank Agarwal fought with 48 runs off 41 balls (four fours and one six) and Heinrich Klaasen smashed 36 off only 16 balls (four fours and two sixes), SRH were bowled out for 178 runs in 19.5 overs. All the MI bowlers played important roles in securing that vital 14-run win.
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