IPL: 3 Top run-scorers for their respective teams
The Indian Premier League (IPL) has been the greatest T20 league around the globe since its appearance in 2008. Every year, great cricketers from around the globe come to India to showcase their skill at this stage and a few become overnight stars.
IPL also presents a chance to examine cricketers by assigning them several duties which might include batting during the death overs, bowling within the power-play and opening the innings.
The T20 league has also seen big totals, exciting chases, huge sixes, classy boundaries, fast fifties and hundreds. In the IPL 2011, Chris Gayle made an impressive resurgence and became the highest run-scorer for Royal Challengers Bangalore for two consecutive seasons.
Over the IPL season, there have been many individuals who have been outstanding for specific franchises. Those franchises cannot be assumed without those cricketers. Let us have a look at the three most run-scorers for their respective teams in IPL.
#3 Rohit Sharma
Currently, Rohit Sharma is one of the most useful batsmen in limited overs format and has been outstanding in the Indian Premier League since the inauguration of the cash-rich league. In the 2011 IPL auction, he was picked up by the Mumbai Indians. He usually performed in the middle order for Mumbai, despite being a consistent opening batsman for India since 2013. In additional to his batting performance, Rohit Sharma has led Mumbai Indians to three titles.
Rohit has scored 4,498 runs at an average of 31.46 and is the third leading run-getter in Indian Premier League behind Suresh Raina and Virat Kohli. Rohit Sharma scored the most fifty-plus for Mumbai and with a solitary century and 26 fifties. Rohit has hit 133 sixes and 283 fours for Mumbai.