Raghu Sharma — Mumbai Indians Player Profile, Role & IPL Record

Mumbai Indians · IPL 2026 squad (date-stamped) · Profile updated 26 October 2026

Ask a Mumbai Indians supporter about Raghu Sharma and the answer usually starts with a moment — one innings, one spell, one night at Wankhede Stadium. This profile covers the verified ground behind those moments: squad role, team fit and what the 2027 season is likely to ask of the player.

Raghu Sharma — Role and Squad Fit at MI

Selection at MI is a weekly puzzle of form, fitness and match-ups, and Raghu Sharma is one of the pieces the coaching staff moves around that board. The verified role on file is: PENDING — specialist role awaiting verified listing. Anything beyond that — full career lines, age, detailed splits — waits in the table below as PENDING until official records confirm it, because a profile that guesses helps nobody prepare for a season.

Consider where Mumbai Indians stand historically: 5 championship(s), won in 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2020. Squads that carry that kind of past get measured against it every April, and Raghu Sharma is part of the group expected to keep MI in the playoff argument. The margins are thin — one win separated fourth from seventh in the 2026 table — so squad players in Raghu Sharma's bracket often decide seasons without ever headlining them.

Stat Table — Raghu Sharma

Franchise	Mumbai Indians
Best bowling figures (IPL)	PENDING verification against official records
Listed role	PENDING — specialist role awaiting verified listing
Most catches (IPL career)	Awaiting verification from official scorecards (PENDING)
Verified X / Twitter	Not publicly listed (no handle printed — never invented)
Batting highest score (IPL)	Awaiting verification from official scorecards (PENDING)
Player	Raghu Sharma
Career IPL runs / wickets	Not yet verified — marked PENDING in our data layer
Squad status	New squad addition in the 2026 cycle listings
Age / date of birth	Yet to be verified (PENDING)
Wicketkeeper?	No
Country	PENDING — no reliable published figure at build time

Raghu Sharma — IPL 2027 Outlook

Finally, a word on expectations for Raghu Sharma: the healthiest way to read a squad player's season is by role delivery, not headline stats. Did the brief get done, in the games that swung the table? By that measure, plenty of Mumbai Indians seasons have been quietly carried by players with profiles exactly like this one. All of it plays out against the backdrop of a league where the gap between the champions and seventh place was a single win in 2026.

There is also the matter of the crowd: home supporters learn squad players' names slowly, then defend them fiercely once a season turns on their work. Overseas-player limits mean Indian squad depth carries a premium that shows up every time an international star is rested or rotated. Fitness is the silent variable: a 74-match season in a compressed window punishes squads whose depth players cannot stay available.

Built from: Full IPL 2026 squad (InsideSport, post 2026 mini-auction). Related reading: the Wankhede Stadium venue guide and the all-time record book.

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