The 14th season of the world’s biggestleague, the Indian Premier League will start on 9 April, and the final will beplayed on 30 May. It’s been 13 years since the inception of IPL. Since then,only five batsmen have been able to score more than 5000 runs.
Out of these five batsmen, four are Indianand only one foreign cricketer has scored 5,000 plus runs in IPL. These 4Indian batsmen are Virat Kohli, Suresh Raina, Rohit Sharma, and Shikhar Dhawan.The foreign player on the list is David Warner.
Talking about the record of maximum sixes inIPL, West Indies player Chris Gayle is the one to name this record tohimself. West Indies batsman Chris Gaylealso holds the record for scoring the best score in a match in 2013.
Only a week is left to the beginning of the14th season of IPL. Here are a few big records related to batting. Thefollowing data includes records such as highest runs, centuries, sixes, fours,highest strike rate, fastest century, best score, and highest zero out.
Topfive scores in IPL:
Since the inception of IPL in 2008, it hasbeen 13 seasons and only five batsmen have been able to score more than 5000runs. Of these four batsmen are Indian, including names like are Virat Kohli,Suresh Raina, Rohit Sharma, and Shikhar Dhawan. The foreign player to recordsuch a high score is David Warner.
Virat Kohli has scored 5,878 runs in 192matches, an average of 38.16. Suresh Raina has an average of 33.34 with 193matches scoring 5,368 runs. Rohit Sharma has scored 5,230 runs in 200 matcheswith an average of 31.31. With 5,197 runs in 176 matches; Shikhar Dhawan has anaverage of 34.41. The fifth batsman David Warner has the highest average of42.71. Warner has scored 5254 runs in 142 matches.
Cricketerswith quickest hundreds:
The top five players with the record ofquickest hundred are Chris Gayle, AB de Villiers, David Miller, Adam Gilchrist,and Yusuf Pathan. Chris Gayle had scored a century in 30 balls in 2013. YusufPathan, the only Indian in the top five had scored a hundred in 37 balls in2010. David Miller had managed to score a century in 38 balls in 2013. In 2008,Adam Gilchrist had scored a hundred in 42 balls. , AB de Villiers took 43 ballsto score a century in 2016.
Bestscorers in IPL:
Brendon McCullum scored 158 runs in the matchagainst RCB in 2008. AB de Villiers managed to score 133 runs in 2015, playingagainst MI. KL Rahul scored 132 runs in a match against RCB in 2020. In 2013,Chris Gayle scored 175 runs. Gayle tops the list of best scorers and still hasthis record for the past 7 years.
Playersto achieve 11 plus sixes in one inning:
Chris Gayle, Brendon McCullum, AB deVilliers, Sanath Jayasuriya, Murali Vijay, Andre Russell are the cricketers toscore 11 plus sixes in one inning. Chris Gayle tops the list with 17 sixes,scored in 2016.
Playerswith 13 times zero out:
Rohit Sharma, Harbhajan Singh, Parthiv Patel,and Ajinkya Rahane are the players with 13 times zero outs in IPL matches.
Playerswith maximum sixes:
Shikhar Dhawan tops the list with 591 fours in176 matches. David Warner has scored 510 fours in 142 matches and Virat Kohlihas managed to score 503 fours in 192 matches.