Most Sixes in IPL 2024
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Updated Apr 16, 2024
Most Sixes in IPL 2024
The Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 is the 17th season of this two-month cricket extravaganza, and the five-time champions, Chennai Super Kings, will be aiming to become the first team to win the trophy for a record sixth time. The Mumbai Indians have also won the title five times. This edition will begin on March 22 with the mouth-watering match between the Chennai Super Kings and the Royal Challengers Bangalore at Chennai.
The Indian Premier League (IPL) is a professional Twenty20 (T20) cricket tournament organized annually by the BCCI. It is a short-form cricket tournament that focuses more on fun and aggression than on the strategy and pace of ODI and Test cricket. There are very few dot balls in the IPL and most batsmen go for boundaries.
Most Sixes in IPL by Players
Chris Gayle, the retired West Indies batsman, holds the record for the most sixes in the history of the league with 357. Rohit Sharma, the Mumbai Indians all-rounder, has 257 maximums, while AB de Villiers, the former AB de Villiers batsman, has 251 hits over the boundaries. The former MS Dhoni, the skipper of Chennai Super Kings, has 239 sixes, and Virat Kohli, the captain of Royal Challengers Bangalore, has 234 sixes.
| Name of the Player | MAT | INN | Balls Faced | 6s | 4s | Highest Score |
| Heinrich Klaasen | 6 | 6 | 127 | 24 | 9 | 80* |
| Nicholas Pooran | 6 | 6 | 138 | 19 | 10 | 64* |
| Riyan Parag | 6 | 5 | 183 | 18 | 18 | 84* |
| Dinesh Karthik | 7 | 5 | 110 | 18 | 16 | 83 |
| Abhishek Sharma | 6 | 6 | 107 | 18 | 16 | 63 |
| Rohit Sharma | 6 | 6 | 156 | 15 | 28 | 105* |
| Shivam Dube | 6 | 6 | 148 | 15 | 20 | 66* |
| Tristan Stubbs | 6 | 5 | 99 | 15 | 9 | 71* |
| Sunil Narine | 5 | 6 | 91 | 14 | 13 | 85 |
| Virat Kohli | 7 | 6 | 245 | 14 | 25 | 113* |
Most Sixes in IPL by Team
In terms of the highest number of sixes by a team in the IPL, the Mumbai Indians are second on the list, followed by the Bangalore Royal Challengers.
| Rank | Team | Sixes |
| 1 | Mumbai Indians | 1548 |
| 2 | Royal Challengers Bangalore | 1484 |
| 3 | Punjab Kings | 1393 |
| 4 | Chennai Super Kings | 1401 |
| 5 | Kolkata Knight Riders | 1351 |
| 6 | Delhi Capitals | 1214 |
| 7 | Rajasthan Royals | 1123 |
| 8 | Sunrisers Hyderabad | 861 |
| 9 | Deccan Chargers | 400 |
| 10 | Lucknow SuperGiants | 230 |
Who hit the longest six in Indian Premier League 2024?
Karthik hit the biggest six of the IPL 2024 season so far when he smashed a six off the bowling of TNatarajan at the M.Chinnaswamy stadium. The ball landed on the roof. The other big sixes of the IPL season so far have come from Venkatesh lndian and Nicholas Pooran of the Lucknow SuperGiants along with Heinrich klaasen of the Kolkata Knight riders who smashed 106m sixes.
| Player | Team | Sixes |
| Dinesh Karthik | Royal Challengers Bengaluru | 108m |
| Heinrich Klaasen | Sunrisers Hyderabad | 106m |
| Venkatesh Iyer | Kolkata Knight Riders | 106m |
| Nicholas Pooran | Lucknow SuperGiants | 106m |
| Ishan Kishan | Mumbai Indians | 103m |
Who is the highest run scorer in IPL 2024?
Virat Kohli is leading the Orange Cap race in IPL 2024, followed by Rishabh Pant, Sanju Samson, Rohit Sharma, Shubman Gill and others. The race for the title is getting more and more intense as top batsmen show their quality.
After the match between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Mumbai Indians, Kohli continues to lead the Orange Cap award list with a total of 361 runs. In the second position, Parag is trailing Kohli and Sanju Samson is in the third position. Rohit Sharma of Mumbai Indians is in the fourth position and has played a key role in his team's IPL campaign.
