IPL 2017: 5 players with most sixes in an innings

#3 Chris Gayle – 13 (RCB vs DD, 17 May 2012)

Gayle hammered 13 sixes in Delhi in 2012

Chris Gayle latched onto some rather listless bowling by Delhi in the 2012 edition of the tournament. The big-hitting opener was rather patient till the eighth over as he sauntered along to 25 off 22 balls with just a single six.

But from then on, he looked like the Gayle we all know and love. He smashed Venugopal Rao and Pawan Negi for a six each before dispatching Irfan Pathan for three sixes in an over. Three more followed in Negi's next as Gayle moved into the nineties.

He soon reached his hundred at a strike rate greater than 200 and celebrated it with twin sixes off Umesh Yadav. Gayle remained unbeaten on 128 off 62 balls with 13 maximums, equalling Brendon McCullum's record set in 2008, as RCB raced to 215.