Rohit Sharma thrashed the bowlers of Kolkata Knight Riders in the second match of IPL 2026. Hitman Rohit completed his half-century in just 23 balls at Wankhede Stadium, which is his fastest fifty in IPL history. Earlier, KKR had scored a huge score of 220 runs, chasing which Rohit and Ryan Rickelton batted brilliantly. Both of them made a partnership of 148 runs for the first wicket.

Batting first, Kolkata Knight Riders had scored 220 runs, in response to which a good start was needed from Rohit Sharma and Ryan Rickelton. Both lived up to expectations, no KKR bowler could trouble them. In the powerplay, both scored 80 runs without losing any wicket.

Rohit hit the fastest fifty

Rohit Sharma completed his half-century in 23 balls. This is his fastest half-century in IPL history, who has been playing since the first edition of the league. Earlier, his fastest half-century came in 25 balls, which he played against Chennai Super Kings in the 2015 final.

Rohit Sharma played an inning of 78 runs in 38 balls and made a partnership of 148 runs with Ryan Rickelton for the first wicket. In this innings, Rohit hit 6 sixes and the same number of fours. He was caught out by Anukul Roy off the ball of Vaibhav Arora.

Rohit Sharma IPL Career

Hitman Rohit has been playing in the first edition of IPL (2008). In the first three editions, he played for Deccan Chargers, for whom he played 45 matches. In 2011, he joined Mumbai Indians and then became the captain, in 2013 he won MI’s first IPL trophy as captain. Mumbai Indians have won 5 trophies under the captaincy of Rohit. Rohit has scored 7124 runs in 273 matches played in IPL, which includes 2 centuries and 48 half-centuries. Rohit has hit 308 sixes and 646 fours in IPL.

IPL 2026 MI vs KKR Match Highlights: Mumbai Indians (MI) broke a 13-year-old record by defeating Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) by 6 wickets in the second match of IPL 2026. In the match played at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai, KKR, batting first, scored 220/4 runs on the board in 20 overs. In response, Mumbai won by scoring 224/4 runs in 19.1 overs. This was the biggest chase of IPL for Mumbai. The innings of Rohit Sharma and Ryan Rickleton contributed significantly in helping the team win.

Rickleton scored 81 runs in 43 balls with the help of 4 fours and 8 sixes. Apart from this, Rohit Sharma scored 78 runs in 38 balls with the help of 6 fours and 6 sixes. The remaining work was done by Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Verma and Hardik Pandya. During this, Vaibhav Arora, Karthik Tyagi and Sunil Narine took 1 wicket each for Kolkata.

13 year drought ends

Mumbai had lost its first match in the last 13 seasons of the Indian Premier League. Breaking this record, Mumbai won. Earlier, MI had won the first match of the season in 2012.

Mumbai was successful in bowling first

In the match, Mumbai Indians captain Hardik Pandya had won the toss and decided to bowl. Batting first, KKR put 220 runs on the board, after which it seemed that victory would not be easy at all for Mumbai. But Mumbai registered a one-sided victory in the run chase.

Rahane and Raghuvanshi’s innings were useless

Ajinkya Rahane played the biggest innings for KKR, scoring 67 runs in 40 balls with the help of 3 fours and 5 sixes. Apart from this, Angkrish Raghuvanshi scored 51 runs in 29 balls with the help of 6 fours and 2 sixes. But Mumbai’s batting ruined both their innings.

Mumbai’s explosive start

The opening pair of Rohit Sharma and Ryan Rickleton gave a good start to Mumbai Indians for the run chase. Both of them made a partnership of 148 runs (71 balls) for the first wicket. This partnership almost put the match in Mumbai’s account. The team got its first blow at 148 runs in 11.5 overs.

After this, Ryan Rickleton and Suryakumar Yadav made a partnership of 31 (15 balls) for the second wicket. This partnership ended at the score of 179 runs in 14.2 overs when Mumbai got its second blow in the form of Surya. Surya scored 16 runs in 8 balls with the help of 3 fours. After this, the team got the third blow in the form of Ryan Rickleton, who was run out and returned to the pavilion at 183 runs in 15.2 overs.

Then the fourth wicket fell at 214 runs in 18.4 overs in the form of Tilak Verma, who scored 20 runs in 14 balls. In the end, Hardik Pandya and Naman Dheer made the team cross the victory line by making a partnership of 09* runs for the fifth wicket.