IPL 2025: Rohit Sharma retirement around the corner? Check details

The biggest news development coming in is that former Mumbai Indians (MI) captain Rohit Sharma is very much expected to announce his retirement from the Indian Premier League (IPL) after the end of the ongoing season. Interestingly, five-time champions Mumbai Indians continued their tradition of "slow starters" in the IPL 2025 season as they suffered back-to-back losses at the hands of Chennai Super Kings (CSK) and Gujarat Titans (GT) in their opening two matches. However, the Hardik Pandya-led MI team made a phenomenal comeback in their last game to beat the defending champions Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) by a comprehensive margin of 8 wickets during their first game this season at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on Monday. 

13, 8 and 0 are Rohit Sharma's scores in the last three innings during the ongoing Indian Premier League 2025 season while opening the batting for the Mumbai Indians. He has not been in the best of forms so far in this T20 competition which is a big worry for the Mumbai Indians team management. According to the recent reports surfacing on the social media. Rohit is likely to announce his IPL retirement after the end of the ongoing edition. 

Breaking news : Rohit Sharma retires from IPL 😳 Wishing him all the best for future endeavors ! #RohitSharma #RohitSharma𓃵 #retire #AprilFoolDay pic.twitter.com/2usq1gWNF1

— Altamash Iqbal (@altamashi25) April 1, 2025

Sorry folks, this is a April Fool's prank and please do not take the above part seriously at all as Rohit Sharma is not going anywhere. He is not going to announce his retirement from the Indian Premier League anytime soon.

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During the IPL 2024 season, Rohit Sharma managed to score a total of 417 runs from as many as 14 matches at a brilliant strike-rate of 150. On the other hand, the experienced Indian opener went on to smash an impressive tally of 257 runs in 8 games at an exceptional strike-rate of over 156 during the winning T20 World Cup 2024 campaign. While talking about the overall Rohit Sharma stats in IPL, the right-handed batter has notched up a total of 6649 runs from 260 games at a strike-rate of 131.05. He is the third highest run-getter in the IPL history after the duo of Shikhar Dhawan and Virat Kohli. 

While playing for the Indian team, Rohit has played a really different and explosive brand of cricket especially in the last three ICC tournaments namely ODI World Cup 2023, T20 World Cup 2024 and the recently concluded Champions Trophy 2025. The skipper has surely led his team from the front in penultimate matches which has helped India win two major ICC trophies in the space of around 9 months. Incidentally, Rohit Sharma started his IPL career in 2008 as a middle-order batsman for the Deccan Chargers before moving to the Mumbai Indians. Rohit experienced his best IPL season in 2013 when he composed a fantastic tally of 538 runs from as many as 19 matches and also captained the Mumbai Indians towards their maiden winning campaign.