7 quintessential IPL records for every enthusiast

Most sixes – Chris Gayle

One need not even take a guess at who owns this list. Chris Gayle has 230 sixes from 81 innings, 80 more than Suresh Raina’s 150 from 128 innings. Rohit Sharma has 147, followed by Yusuf Pathan and MS Dhoni with 127 and 126 respectively. There are 12 players in all with more than 100 sixes. However, as far as sixes are concerned there is Gayle, then daylight, then the rest.

Interestingly, Gayle has just 261 fours compared to Raina’s 321 and Virender Sehwag’s 334, showing the mighty West Indian southpaw deals mostly in the monster hits, which somehow always captivate the Chinnaswamy audiences.

Gayle averages close to three sixes per match. He also holds the record for most sixes in one innings – 17, against Pune Warriors in his knock of 175* breaking Brendon McCullum’s record of 13 in the inaugural match of the IPL. Gayle shared that record of 13 sixes for a while, having hit the same number against Delhi Daredevils in 2012.