Rohit Sharma - Most Runs Scored as Captain in IPL

The Hitman who led Mumbai Indians to five IPL titles and India to T20 World Cup and Champions Trophy glory.

Rohit Gurunath Sharma (born 30 April 1987) is an Indian international cricketer and the former captain of the India national cricket team in all formats. He is a right-handed top-order batter who represents Mumbai in domestic cricket and Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League.

Quick Facts

Role: Captain & Batsman
Affiliation: Mumbai Indians (IPL)
Status: Former Captain
Major honours: 5 IPL Titles as Captain
Key record: Most Runs Scored by a Captain in IPL History

Lore & Background

Sharma was a member of the teams that won the 2007 T20 World Cup, the 2013 ICC Champions Trophy and was the winning captain of the 2024 T20 World Cup and the 2025 ICC Champions Trophy. He formerly captained Mumbai Indians, leading the team to five Indian Premier League titles in 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2020, making him the most successful captain in IPL history, sharing this record with MS Dhoni. He is the first and only captain to lead a team in all ICC tournament finals.

Reader's Guide

Sharma holds several batting records including most runs in T20 Internationals, most sixes in international cricket, most double centuries in ODI cricket (3), most centuries at Cricket World Cups (7), and joint most hundreds in Twenty20 Internationals (5). He holds the world record for the highest individual score (264) in an ODI and the record for scoring most hundreds (five) in a single Cricket World Cup, for which he won the ICC Men's ODI Cricketer of the Year award in 2019.