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Abhishek Sharma created history, became the second player in the world to achieve such a feat in IPL.
Samira Vishwas | April 19, 2026 7:24 PM CST

Abhishek Sharma Create History: The 27th match of IPL 2026 was played between Sunrisers Hyderabad and Chennai Super Kings. In which Hyderabad won the match by 10 runs. With this, Sunrisers Hyderabad’s star batsman Abhishek Sharma has achieved a big achievement. He has completed his 2000 runs in IPL.

Abhishek Sharma has done a big feat after completing 2000 runs. He is ‘number-2’ in the list of fastest batsmen to complete 2,000 runs in terms of balls in the history of IPL. Have reached the location. Abhishek completed 2000 runs in just 1193 balls in IPL. Abhishek Sharma completed this feat by scoring a half-century in 15 balls.

Fastest batsman to complete 2000 runs in IPL

  • 1120 – andre russell
  • 1193 – Abhishek Sharma*
  • 1198 – nicholas puran
  • 1211 – Virender Sehwag
  • 1251 – chris gayle

Andre Russell tops the list of players who have completed 2,000 runs in the fewest number of balls in IPL history, who achieved this feat in 1,120 balls. Whereas, Nicholas Pooran (1,198) is at third place in this list. Virender Sehwag (1,211) and Chris Gayle (1,251) are at fourth and fifth positions respectively.

In this match being played in Hyderabad, Abhishek faced 22 balls and played an inning of 59 runs with 4 sixes and 6 fours. During this, he made a partnership of 75 runs with Travis Head in 5.5 overs. During this match, Abhishek Sharma achieved the feat of hitting boundaries on 8 consecutive balls. He also became the first batsman for Sunrisers Hyderabad to complete a half-century in 15 balls. Earlier, Abhishek had scored a half-century in 16 balls against Mumbai Indians in the year 2024.

Abhishek Sharma’s IPL career

Abhishek Sharma has played 83 matches in his IPL career so far, scoring 2,004 runs in 80 innings at an average of 27.45. During this period, he scored 1 century and 11 half-centuries. This season, Abhishek Sharma has scored 188 runs in 6 matches with an average of 31.33. He scored 2 half-centuries with his bat in IPL 2026. Abhishek had played an inning of 74 runs in the match against Punjab Kings.

Hyderabad won the match by 10 runs

Due to Abhishek’s brilliant batting, Sunrisers Hyderabad team scored 194 runs at the loss of 9 wickets. Apart from Abhishek, Heinrich Klaasen also played an inning of 59 runs. In reply, while chasing the target, Chennai Super Kings team could score only 184 runs at the loss of 8 wickets in 20 overs. Hyderabad won this match by 10 runs.


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