Cricket has gained popularity very quickly over the past few years in the hearts of sports fans. This game has become one of the most popular games played and watched by people from all over the world. This growth in the number of fans in the past few years has mainly been due to the game`s simplicity in its rules and the gameplay itself. Another reason for this game`s success is the availability of its equipment easily and is also cheap to buy.
One can now find people playing cricket in any part of India. This made India get its championship that is held yearly. Thus, several IPL fans want to know who has scored most runs in IPL tournament. There have been a lot of amazing players in the history of IPL and cricket, from which some of the batsmen with the highest runs are mentioned below.
David Warner
He can be one of the most amazing batsmen of all time among other foreign players. He is also the sole player to cross the barrier of 500 runs for every single IPL season that has taken place since the year 2014. This makes him one of the best batsmen in their form. Due to his skills, David achieved the fifth position on the scores for having the highest runs in IPL combined. He has a total of 5449 runs from all of the IPL matches he has batted so far.
Scoring achievements such as fifty half-centuries and four full centuries makes him even better of a batsman while maintaining an average of 41.59. Even though Warner started in Delhi Capitals but is now in Sunrisers Hyderabad and even made them win a season of IPL in 2016 and has been in this team since then. He has scored most of his runs against the team Punjab Kings at 943 from just a total of 20 matches.
Suresh Raina
Raina was the player who held the record for having played the most number of matches in IPL and scoring the most number of runs for a long period. This makes him a record holder in other cricket fields as well and an outstanding player. Scoring a total of 5528 runs in all of the IPL matches played so far.
Playing in a total of 205 matches, he has scored 39 half-centuries and a single century in all of his IPL seasons. He can also maintain the average run rate of 32.51 while playing in Chennai Super Kings. Scoring this total runs in only 200 innings is an amazing achievement for any player. When Chennai Super Kings was on a temporary ban, the player joined a new Gujarat Lions the Same year.
Rohit Sharma
He is a player of the current Indian international team and is also considered a great batsman. He has achieved 5611 runs from a total of 213 matches while maintaining an average of 31.17 among all of the matches he has played so far. He has been a player from teams such as Deccan Charges and is currently in Mumbai Indians. He scored a total of 1170 runs just from 45 matches while being in Deccan Chargers.
He is considered among the top-notch players India has to offer, and he has also maintained an amazing run rate in several of the international matches. This makes him another valuable aspect of Mumbai Indian and is a very important player for achieving its victory for a total of five matches.
Shekhar Dhawan
He is the player with the achieved of having scored the second-highest runs in IPL. He was able to score a total of 5784 from all of the IPL matches he has played in total. Dhawan has been in a total of four teams Sunrisers Hyderabad, Delhi Capitals, Deccan Charges, as well as in Mumbai Indians.
Scoring 2518 runs from only 85 matches while being in Sunrisers Hyderabad. He is also hopped to be in Mumbai, India, in the IPL 2022 and will give even a more amazing performance than last year.
Virat Kohli
Former captain of Indian international team as well as for the team RCB in IPL. He is among the best batsman in India. Scoring a total of 6283 runs in just 207 matches in total. He is the sole batsman who is above the 6000 mark and is also the batsman with the highest number of runs in IPL. He is has maintained a total of 37.39 in run rate and has 40 centuries along with five full centuries.