Abhishek Sharma Net Worth 2026: ₹14 Crore SRH Salary and ₹49.7 Crore IPL Earnings

Updated 17 September 2026 — rewritten for the 2026 season. IPL salaries verified against The Quint, ESPNcricinfo and Wikipedia’s 2026 IPL retention list; BCCI contract grade against the BCCI’s 2025-26 retainership announcement. Corrected: an earlier version gave his highest IPL score as 75*. It is 141.

Abhishek Sharma earns ₹14 crore from Sunrisers Hyderabad in IPL 2026, the same retention fee SRH paid him in 2025. Across nine IPL seasons his salary adds up to about ₹49.7 crore before tax. Published estimates of his net worth run from ₹12 crore to about ₹20 crore, which looks low against that record.

On the field he has become one of the leading T20 openers in the world: the ICC’s top-ranked T20I batter, Player of the Tournament at the 2025 Asia Cup, and the scorer of a 21-ball 52 in India’s 2026 T20 World Cup final win.

Abhishek Sharma Bio

Attribute	Details
Full Name	Abhishek Sharma
Date of Birth	September 4, 2000 (age 26)
Birth Place	Amritsar, Punjab, India
Parents	Raj Kumar Sharma and Manju Sharma
Nationality	Indian
Role	Left-handed opening batter, left-arm spinner
IPL Team	Sunrisers Hyderabad
IPL 2026 Salary	₹14 crore (retained)
IPL Career Salary (2018-2026)	About ₹49.7 crore, gross
BCCI Contract	Grade C, 2025-26 (₹1 crore retainer)
T20I Debut	6 July 2024 vs Zimbabwe

What is Abhishek Sharma’s Net Worth?

No outlet has published a net worth estimate for Abhishek Sharma with a stated method. The figures in circulation run from ₹12-15 crore, the range this page itself used to carry, to about ₹20 crore on Networthinfo. One widely shared Zee News headline puts his fortune at “Rs 12,000,000”, which is only ₹1.2 crore. That is almost certainly a units slip, since a single IPL season pays him more than ten times that.

Set those estimates against what he has actually been paid. His IPL salaries alone total about ₹49.7 crore since 2018, and he has drawn a BCCI central contract and international match fees on top. That is gross income, before income tax, agent fees and spending, so his net worth is lower than his earnings. But a ₹12-15 crore estimate would mean roughly 70% or more of that money is gone, and there is no reported reason to think so. Treat the published figures as floors, not measurements.

How much does Abhishek Sharma earn from IPL?

Sunrisers Hyderabad retained Abhishek for ₹14 crore ahead of IPL 2025 and kept him at that fee for 2026, according to the 2026 retention lists. That ranks him joint-24th on our list of the highest paid IPL players in 2026, level with SRH opening partner Travis Head, and well short of the league-record ₹27 crore paid to Rishabh Pant.

His pay has risen in three steps. Delhi Daredevils bought him for ₹55 lakh in January 2018. In November 2018 he moved to Hyderabad at that same salary, as part of the trade that sent Shikhar Dhawan to Delhi in exchange for Vijay Shankar, Shahbaz Nadeem and Abhishek, The Quint reported. At the 2022 mega auction SRH outbid Gujarat Titans and Punjab Kings to buy him back for ₹6.5 crore, from a base price of ₹20 lakh.

Season(s)	Team	Salary per season	How	Total
2018	Delhi Daredevils	₹55 lakh	Bought at auction	₹0.55 crore
2019-2021	Sunrisers Hyderabad	₹55 lakh	Traded (Dhawan deal)	₹1.65 crore
2022-2024	Sunrisers Hyderabad	₹6.5 crore	Bought at 2022 mega auction	₹19.5 crore
2025	Sunrisers Hyderabad	₹14 crore	Retained	₹14 crore
2026	Sunrisers Hyderabad	₹14 crore	Retained	₹14 crore
Total				About ₹49.7 crore

The total assumes each auction or retention fee was paid in full for every season of the cycle, which is how IPL contracts normally work. It excludes match fees and any team bonuses.

BCCI Central Contract

The BCCI’s Annual Player Retainership for 2025-26 places Abhishek in Grade C, worth a fixed ₹1 crore a year. The board scrapped the Grade A+ tier for this cycle, leaving Grade A at ₹5 crore, Grade B at ₹3 crore and Grade C at ₹1 crore. The retainer is paid on top of international match fees, not instead of them.

Brand Endorsements

Abhishek’s rise since the 2025 Asia Cup has made him an obvious target for brands, but the values of his deals have not been reported by any reliable source. An earlier version of this page listed seven brands and claimed his endorsements were worth ₹1-1.5 crore a year and had risen 20-30% after the Asia Cup. None of that was sourced, so it has been removed rather than repeated.

Abhishek Sharma’s Career Highlights

Abhishek was part of the India squad that won the 2018 Under-19 World Cup, alongside his childhood friend and fellow Punjab cricketer Shubman Gill. He has long credited Yuvraj Singh, who worked with him closely during the COVID-19 lockdown, for shaping his batting.

His IPL breakout came with SRH in 2024. In 2025 he hit 141 off 55 balls against Punjab Kings, the highest score ever made for Hyderabad, as SRH pulled off one of the biggest chases in IPL history. On 21 April 2026 he followed it with 135 not out off 68 balls against Delhi Capitals, reaching his hundred in 47 balls, as SRH made 242 for 2 and won by 47 runs, ESPNcricinfo reported. That made him the first batter in IPL history with two scores of 130 or more. SRH’s batting line-up also holds some of the highest team totals in IPL history.

For India, he made his T20I debut against Zimbabwe on 6 July 2024 and scored a hundred in his second match the next day. On 2 February 2025 he hit 135 against England at the Wankhede, the innings covered in our report on his historic Wankhede performance. At the 2025 Asia Cup he was Player of the Tournament with 314 runs at a strike rate of about 200, won a Haval H9 SUV for the award, and was then named ICC Men’s Player of the Month for September 2025. He climbed to No. 1 in the ICC T20I batting rankings with a rating of 931, the highest men’s T20I rating ever recorded.

The 2026 T20 World Cup started badly, with three ducks in a row. He answered in the final on 8 March 2026 in Ahmedabad, scoring 52 off 21 balls and adding 98 with Sanju Samson as India beat New Zealand by 96 runs.

Assets and Lifestyle

Very little about Abhishek’s assets is on the public record. The Haval H9 he received at the 2025 Asia Cup is documented. Media reports have described a family home in Amritsar, but the price attached to it in lifestyle articles is not backed by any property record, so this page does not repeat it. Earlier claims here about a Ferrari purchase were rumours and have been removed.

He was born in Amritsar to Raj Kumar and Manju Sharma, has two elder sisters, and went to school at Delhi Public School, Amritsar. For the whole IPL pay scale he sits in, see our cricket net worth coverage.

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