IPL 2019: Three records that can be broken

#2 Race between Raina & Kohli to become the first to score 5000 runs

S Raina vs V Kohli

This IPL will also see batsman breach the 5000-run mark in the tournament's history. Not surprisingly, Suresh Raina is the first in the list with the most number of runs in IPL history.

Raina has scored 4985 runs in 172 innings and is just 15 runs away from becoming the first batsman to score 5,000 IPL runs.

Closing on his heels is Virat Kohli, who has scored 4948 runs in 155 innings. With the first game of the IPL set to be played between Chennai Super Kings and Royal Challengers Bangalore, the race between Kohli and Raina to become the first player to breach the 5,000-run barrier will serve as an ideal sub-plot to what already is a mouth-watering encounter.

#1 Who will become the first Indian to score 200 sixes?

First India to score 200 Sixes?

If you look at the list for the most number of sixes hit by a batsman in the IPL, you'll realize what a colossal figure Chris Gayle has been during the past eleven seasons. Gayle has stroked 292 sixes in the IPL, while no other batsman has crossed 200.

But, we should have a lot more names in that list this year, and three Indians are in contention of becoming the first Indian to stroke 200 sixes. MS Dhoni leads the list with 186 hits in 158 innings closely followed by Suresh Raina [185 in 172 innings] and Rohit Sharma, who has stroked 184 sixes in 168 innings.

The Indian skipper, Virat Kohli is sixth on the list with 178 hits while AB de Villiers finds himself tied with MS Dhoni, with 186 sixes, and can become the second foreigner to stroke 200 sixes in IPL cricket.