Abhishek Sharma

The arrival

Abhishek Sharma arrived through the auction: Delhi Daredevils paid ₹55 lakh, against a base price of ₹20 lakh.

That first season brought 3 matches and 63 runs. The best was still to come.

The peak

The high point with the bat was 2026, for Sunrisers Hyderabad: 563 runs at an average of 40.2, striking at 204.7 in a season when the league as a whole struck at 156.5, with 1 hundred and 4 fifties, and a highest score of 135 not out. There were four seasons of 400 runs or more in all (2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026).

Measured against the league around it, though, the most destructive season was 2024: 484 runs at a strike rate of 204.2, 54 runs per hundred balls quicker than the IPL as a whole that year.

With the ball, the best season was 2021, for Sunrisers Hyderabad: 4 wickets at 6.40 runs an over, while the league's bowlers went for 7.87, with best figures of 2 for 4.

Franchise by franchise

2018, Delhi Daredevils. Bought at the 2018 auction for ₹55 lakh. 3 matches and 63 runs.

2019 to 2026, Sunrisers Hyderabad. Arrived outside the auction. 89 matches, 2,316 runs and 11 wickets.

2 spells with two franchises in all. The longest was with Sunrisers Hyderabad, 2019 to 2026.

Bat, ball and method

Across the career, Abhishek Sharma has struck at 171.3. The league around those same seasons, weighted by how much batting each one involved, struck at 144.9, so Abhishek Sharma has scored about 26 runs per hundred balls faster than the typical batter of the time. 74% of the runs came in fours and sixes: 224 fours and 144 sixes.

The ball-by-ball record adds the detail. 34.9% of the balls Abhishek Sharma faced were dot balls, a lower share than 59% of the 140 batters who have faced 500 balls or more in the IPL. A six came every 9.7 balls, the 8th-best rate in that group, and a four every 6.2.

With the ball, 11 wickets in 366 deliveries, at 9.02 runs an over against a league rate of 8.75 for the same seasons: 0.26 an over more expensive than the typical bowler of the time.

The fielding record: 35 catches and 1 run-out.

At the auction

Abhishek Sharma has gone under the hammer twice. The highest price was ₹6.50 cr, paid by Sunrisers Hyderabad in 2022, more than 32 times the base price. The price climbed with the reputation: ₹55 lakh in 2018, ₹6.50 cr by 2022.

Seasons without an auction entry were played under a retention, a trade or a signing made outside the auction.

Where it stands

Abhishek Sharma has made 92 IPL appearances, the latest for Sunrisers Hyderabad in 2026, and has won 7 player-of-the-match awards.