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Cricket News: Who hit the most sixes in IPL 2023? Stats highlights from an incredible season | IPL 2023 stats: fours, sixes and more
Faf du Plessis may have missed out on the Orange Cap, but the Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) captain finished the 2023 Indian Premier League (IPL) season with the most sixes. The opener hit 36 sixes in the campaign, finishing ahead of Shivam Dube (35), Shubman Gill (33) and Ruturaj Gaikwad (30), who were all involved in the playoffs.
Glenn Maxwell was also in the top five with 31 maximums.
IPL 2023 stats highlights – a memorable tournament filled with big scores
This infographic from GrabOn paints the picture. Superstar Shubman Gill topped the run-scoring charts as well as the most fours, hitting 85 of them across 17 matches. Yashasvi Jaiswal came in second with 82, followed by Devon Conway (77), David Warner (69) and Virat Kohli (65).
Gujarat Titans had the top-three wicket-takers – Mohammed Shami, Mohit Sharma and Rashid Khan – which makes their loss in the final all the more heartbreaking. Piyush Chawla and Yuzvendra Chahal round out the top five.
View the full infographic here.
Other notable stats from the tournament:
- Most 200+ totals in a season (37)
- Most matches with an aggregate of 400+ runs in a single edition (16)
- IPL 2023 saw the first instance of two players from different teams score a hundred in the same game (Heinrich Klaasen and Virat Kohli)
- Shubman Gill hit the highest individual score in a playoffs match (129)
- Most hundreds struck by different players in a season (12)
