Published By: Saksham Mishra

Quickest to 100 IPL sixes

Kolkata Knight Riders' all-rounder Andre Russell holds the record for being the fastest to 100 IPL sixes.

Andre Russell 657 Andre Russell became the fastest batsman to reach 100 IPL sixes when he brought up the feat of just 657 deliveries.

Russell has hit a total of 159 IPL sixes to go along with 130 boundaries and has scored 1879 runs at an average of 30.31 and a strike rate of 178.4 in the IPL.

Chris Gayle 943 Chris Gayle holds the record for being the second fastest to 100 IPL sixes.

He has also hit the most number of sixes by anyone in the IPL with 357 hits and leads the race by some margin. AB de Villiers with 239 sixes is at the second spot.

Chris Gayle has scored 4965 runs in the IPL with over 400 boundaries and the best of 175 . He also has 6 100s and 31 half centuries in the competition at an average of almost 40 and a strike rate of close to 150.

Hardik Pandya 1046 Hardik Pandya recently reached 100 IPL sixes in a match against Sunrisers Hyderabad in IPL 2022. However, his team Gujarat Titans lost the match by 8 wickets.

"I think batting wise we were 7-10 runs short, that would have made difference in the end. We started well with the ball, but those two overs where they scored 30 runs, got them back into the game. IPL is tough so I tried to show some toughness (against Malik). That (blow to the helmet) woke me up. They bowled well and stuck to their plans, credit to them for the way they bowled. We need to learn from the mistakes, we will have a conversation over the next couple of days," Pandya said after the loss.

The Titans batted first and scored 162 runs from their 20 overs. Their highest scorer was captain Hardik Pandya who played a measured knock with an unbeaten half century off 42 deliveries with the help of 4 boundaries and one six, going at a strike rate of under 120.

It was clear that the skipper did not have enough confidence in his lower middle order after 4 wickets fell within the first 14 overs.

As a result, Sunrisers Hyderabad chased down the target without much difficulty. Pandya was the pick of the bowlers for Gujarat as well.