IPL: Top 5 batsmen with highest strike rates in history of the tournament

#4 Chris Gayle

No other batsman can hit the cricket ball as long as Chris Gayle hits when he is on a song. Everyone on the ground including the spectators are in danger when this Caribbean batsman is in form.

Gayle has a career strike rate of 151.20 in the IPL. He has hit 265 sixes in just 101 IPL matches. That shows how frequently he can hit the ball out of the park.

Gayle made his IPL debut way back in the very first season in 2008. But during the early IPL years, he failed to make his mark. But it was during 2011 IPL that he got the recognition he deserved. He scored 2 centuries in that season and managed to score 608 runs at a strike rate of 183.13.

This was followed by even more exceptional performances in 2012 IPL where he fired 733 runs for the Royal Challengers Bangalore. But his next seasons were a mix of few good innings and several failures.

Even after his consistent failures, he remains one of the brutal hitters going around in T20 cricket. This year, Gayle will be opening the batting for the Kings XI Punjab