Sports Desk. After the lethal bowling of Shardul Thakur (three wickets), on the basis of stormy innings by Ryan Rickleton (81) and Rohit Sharma (78), Mumbai Indians defeated Kolkata Knight Riders by 6 wickets in their first match of IPL 2026.

Rohit Sharma played an excellent inning of 78 runs in just 38 balls. On the basis of this inning, Rohit Sharma has destroyed a record of RCB star cricketer Virat Kohli. Rohit Sharma has always had an excellent record with the bat in the IPL against Kolkata Knight Riders. On Sunday also, Rohit Sharma played a stormy inning of 78 runs in this match against KKR. In this innings he hit 6 fours and 6 sixes. On the basis of this inning, Rohit Sharma has now become the cricketer who has scored the most runs against a single team in the history of IPL.

Rohit has scored a total of 1161 runs against KKR. Now Virat Kohli has come to second place in this list. Virat Kohli has scored a total of 1159 runs against Punjab Kings in IPL. There will be many cases for Virat Kohli to leave Rohit Sharma behind in this matter. Virat Kohli has also scored 1146 runs against Chennai Super Kings. He has scored 1130 runs against Delhi Capitals.

Rohit Sharma also completed his half-century of 50.
As soon as Rohit Sharma completed his half-century in the match played against Kolkata Knight Riders, he became only the fourth cricketer in the history of IPL to score 50 fifty plus. Before this, Virat Kohli, David Warner and Shikhar Dhawan have registered big achievements in their names.

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