Mumbai Indians skipper and veteran batter Rohit Sharma has achieved a new milestone in his Indian Premier League career. The right-hander has now become only the fourth batter to score 6000 runs in the IPL career after Virat Kohli on first, Shikhar Dhawan on second, and David Warner on third.
Rohit’s achievement also made fans happy and subsequently, they took to Twitter to lavish praises on him. Fans came up with a lot of appreciation reactions and responses on the micro-blogging site in favour of the 35-year-old veteran batter.
Here’s how fans reacted:
The GOAT.
— ` (@worship45) April 18, 2023
Rohit Sharma mass 🔥
— Em!N€nt $oC!@li$t (@Insane__Emi) April 18, 2023
Most runs in Wins !!
— 𝐒𝐀𝐌 (@Not_vitamin_bro) April 18, 2023
ROHIT SHARMA 💙🥵
Balls taken to reach 6000 IPL runs
— ︎Ⓗ︎EⒶ𝙙ҽ尺 (@Head9_) April 18, 2023
4285 - David Warner
4595 - Virat Kohli
4616 - Rohit Sharma*
4738 - Shikhar Dhawan
Ro45❤
— Sachin Kumar Rout (@RoutSachin) April 18, 2023
Rohit Sharma becomes the first player with 5 IPL trophies to score 6000 runs is the right caption 👍🏻
— Em!N€nt $oC!@li$t (@Insane__Emi) April 18, 2023
One of the giants of IPL 🔥
— Ritvik (@kohli_fanatic) April 18, 2023
He is not a batsman he is simply HITMAN
— Kings 2 (@Fanbasecrictext) April 18, 2023
ro superhit
— GOATROHIT45 (@sachinq518) April 18, 2023
Only player to bat in the middle order- Rohit Sharma The GOAT
— MK (@NotMK45) April 18, 2023
Mumbai Indians are currently in action in their fifth match of the current season against Sunrisers Hyderabad at the Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium in Hyderabad. The hosts’ skipper Aiden Markram has decided to bowl first after winning the toss and MI have scored 161 runs so far after losing four wickets in 17.3 overs.
At the time of filling this copy, Cameron Green and Tim David were in the middle on the individual scores of 47 and 2 runs respectively. Marco Jansen has scalped two wickets for SRH alongside one wicket each claimed by Bhuvneshwar Kumar and T Natarajan.
Coming back to Rohit Sharma; he played a knock of 28 runs off 18 balls today with six boundaries with the wood.
Notably, both Mumbai Indians and Sunrisers Hyderabad are coming off with two consecutive wins in their last two matches in the ongoing edition of the Indian Premier League 2023. They will be eyeing to register their third consecutive win in the tournament.