Rohit Sharma batted brilliantly against the Delhi Capitals in the eighth match of the Indian Premier League 2026. He hit five fours and a huge six. Opening for the Mumbai Indians, he scored 35 runs off 26 balls at the Arun Jaitley Stadium and gave the team a good start, especially when Ryan Rickelton was dismissed early.
With this performance, Rohit Sharma snatched the ‘Orange Cap’ from Cooper Connolly, which was the first time in his IPL career. Earlier, he had played a smoky innings of 78 runs off 38 balls against the Kolkata Knight Riders at the Wankhede Stadium, thanks to which the Mumbai Indians easily achieved the target of 220 runs.
He has scored 113 runs in two matches so far and is in excellent form. Although he often plays big innings in the IPL, he has never won the Orange Cap in an entire season. This time he has emerged as a strong contender for the honour.
Rohit Sharma has become one of the players to win the Orange Cap in the early days of the season. He has made a strong claim in this race by showing excellent form and now he has emerged as a major candidate to retain the title throughout the tournament.
Which IPL season saw Rohit Sharma deliver his best performance with the bat?
Rohit Sharma, who played 274 IPL matches, showed his best batting in the 2013 season. In the same season, he was given the captaincy of Mumbai Indians for the first time, when Ricky Ponting stepped down. Rohit scored 538 runs in 19 innings, at an average of 38.42 and a strike rate of 131.54, while he also scored four half-centuries.
This is the only time till now when he scored more than 500 runs in a season. Interestingly, despite such a brilliant performance, he remained in sixth position in the list of top scorers that season, while Michael Hussey won the Orange Cap. However, Rohit Sharma won his first IPL trophy for the Mumbai Indians in the same season, which proved his leadership and laid the foundation for a successful captaincy period.
Suryakumar Yadav powers Mumbai Indians past 150.
Batting first in the recent match, Mumbai Indians scored over 150 runs despite losing early wickets. Suryakumar Yadav played an innings of 51 runs off 36 balls, while Rohit Sharma and Naman Dhir also added important runs to put the team in a strong position.
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