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

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.

#2 Virat Kohli

Virat Kohli

Virat Kohli is one of the most auspicious Indian batsmen of all time and has played Royal Challenger Bangalore in all the 11 Indian Premier League seasons so far.

In IPL, Virat Kohli has scored 4,948 runs at an exceptional average of 37.34 and a strike-rate nearly 130 with four century and 30 fifties. The Indian skipper has the second most hundreds in the Indian Premier League after his former teammate Chris Gayle. Despite his countless achievements, Kohli has not been able to succeed an Indian Premier League title.

Virat Kohli scored above 500 runs in five IPL editions. He is also the second highest scorer in IPL history. Virat Kohli grasps the record for the most runs scored in a solitary Indian Premier League season. In 2016, Virat Kohli scored the highest runs in a single Twenty20 tournament with 973 runs at a whopping average of 81.18.

#1 Suresh Raina

Suresh Raina

Suresh Raina is apparently one of India’s exceptional Twenty20 International cricketers. He has deserved himself the name of 'Mr IPL' for his regular performance throughout the IPL.

The leading run-scorer in the Indian Premier League has scored 4,985 runs in just 176 matches at an average of 35.53. Suresh Raina also tops the list of sixes and fours for Chennai Super Kings. Suresh Raina has been the backbone of the CSK middle order and has won numerous games for them single-handedly ever since the inception of the Indian Premier League. In three matches, Suresh Raina has skippered the Chennai Super Kings. His occasional bowling has also been utilized by Mahendra Sigh Dhoni over the years, which has supported the franchise several times. He has been the great batsman of the Indian Premier League. The orange cap is the solitary thing that he has not arranged to bring home.