Mumbai Indians, the five-time IPL champions, are currently captained by Rohit Sharma, who ranks among the top five run-scorers in the tournament. Rohit also leads the runs scoring chart for the Mumbai franchise by a big margin. The second-placed Kieron Pollard is almost 1000 runs less than his captain when it comes to the contribution of runs to the team.
Mumbai is a side that always prefers to maintain their core players in the side, which leads to many franchise regulars in their top-10 runs scorers chart.
Few world-class batsmen who have batted extensively for the blue-jerseys are Sachin Tendulkar (who was the icon player for the team when the tournament was inaugurated), Sanath Jayasuriya, Ricky Ponting, Ajinkya Rahane, Rohit Sharma, Yuvraj Singh, Andrew Symonds, Quinton de Kock, Hardik Pandya, Jos Buttler, Shikhar Dhawan and the young sensations Ishan Kishan and Suryakumar Yadav (nicknamed SKY).
They have always been a side with a rich batting order, and here are the top ten batters who scored the most runs for Mumbai Indians in the overall IPL seasons.
Most Runs for MI in IPL
| PLAYERS | RUNS | INNINGS | AVERAGE | STRIKE RATE | HIGH SCORE | 50s/100s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rohit Sharma | 5458 | 208 | 29.50 | 131.07 | 109* | 35/2 |
| Kieron Pollard | 3412 | 171 | 28.67 | 147.14 | 87* | 16/0 |
| Suryakumar Yadav | 2986 | 94 | 35.12 | 148.40 | 103* | 23/2 |
| Ambati Rayudu | 2416 | 107 | 27.14 | 126.16 | 81* | 14/0 |
| Sachin Tendulkar | 2334 | 78 | 34.83 | 119.81 | 100* | 13/1 |
| Ishan Kishan | 2325 | 84 | 29.80 | 136.84 | 99 | 15/0 |
| Hardik Pandya | 1692 | 98 | 25.63 | 152.43 | 91 | 4/0 |
| Quinton de Kock | 1329 | 43 | 34.07 | 131.32 | 81 | 10/0 |
| Tilak Varma | 1156 | 38 | 39.86 | 146.32 | 84* | 0/6 |
| Krunal Pandya | 1143 | 72 | 22.86 | 138.54 | 86 | 1/0 |
Stats Insights
The only player who is not in this top ten list and scored an IPL century for Mumbai Indians is Sanath Jayasuriya. The former Sri Lankan opener scored 768 runs in the 30 innings he played for the franchise. Jayasuriya’s unbeaten 114 against Chennai Super Kings in the first season is still the highest score by any MI batsman to date.
Harbhajan Singh has been dismissed for more ducks in the blue jersey. He was dismissed 13 times for zero playing for MI and followed by the skipper, Rohit Sharma (11).
In the boundaries count, Kieron Pollard leads the sixes-count currently with 214 sixes, and Rohit leads the fours column with 395 fours until the 2021 season.
West Indies opener Lendl Simmons has the best average among the players with more than 1000 runs for the franchise, and Hardik Pandya rules the strike rate column.
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