IPL 2017: 5 players with most sixes in IPL history

#4 Virat Kohli

148 sixes in 139 matches

When you think of six-hitting machines, Virat Kohli is not the first name that hits you like rain on a hot summer's day. But the man, who confessed that he tries his best to not even lift the leather ball off the ground in Tests, features in fourth place on the list of players with most sixes, above a certified six-hitting machine in AB de Villiers.

The fact that he has played 139 matches, which is more than all but two players in the top five, certainly helps his cause but that alone cannot explain how Kohli has managed to hit more sixes in the IPL than two of India's most destructive batsmen in Yuvraj Singh and MS Dhoni.

What does, instead, is the fact that, Kohli is the type of player who was thought to be made obsolete by T20s, the conventional do-gooder who follows the text book but has instead flourished with the shackles taken away. While Kohli has the lowest percentage of IPL runs in sixes among the top five, he has shown that proper shots and having the right technique can still get you plenty of sixes.