Kagiso Rabada finished IPL 2026 as the best bowler of the season. The Gujarat Titans fast bowler took 29 wickets in 17 matches and won the Purple Cap for the second time in his career. He was the standout bowler of a high scoring season, though his team lost the final to Royal Challengers Bengaluru….
The last five overs of a T20 innings are the hardest place to bowl. Batters swing at everything, fields spread wide, and one loose over can decide a final. The best economy rate in death overs in IPL history belongs to Lasith Malinga, who conceded only 7.78 runs per over across 965 balls bowled in…
The best bowling average in IPL history belongs to Doug Bollinger, who took 37 wickets for Chennai Super Kings at just 18.73 runs each. A bowling average measures how many runs a bowler gives away for every wicket he takes, so a lower number means greater control. In a league built for big hitting, keeping…
MS Dhoni holds the record for the most dismissals by wicketkeepers in IPL, with 201 dismissals from 2008 to 2026. He is the only wicketkeeper in league history to cross the 200 mark. Dinesh Karthik sits second with 174 dismissals, and Wriddhiman Saha is a distant third with 113. A dismissal for a wicketkeeper means…
The record for the most fifty plus partnerships in IPL history is shared by three legendary pairs. Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers, Virat Kohli and Chris Gayle, and Shubman Gill and Sai Sudharsan have each put together 21 partnerships of fifty or more in the league. No pair in the history of the tournament…
Most century partnerships in IPL history now belong to Shubman Gill and Sai Sudharsan. The Gujarat Titans openers left every great pair of the past behind during IPL 2026 and finished the season with 11 stands of 100 runs or more. Their 167 run opening stand against Rajasthan Royals in Qualifier 2 on 29 May…
Brendon McCullum and Manish Pandey share the IPL record for the longest innings by balls faced. Both faced 73 balls in their innings. No batter has faced more balls in a single IPL innings since the league began in 2008. McCullum reached 73 balls with a storm of 158 not out in the very first…
Scoring one century in the IPL takes rare skill and rare timing. Scoring four of them in a single season, all at a strike rate above 100, is a record only two batters have ever touched. The race for most centuries with 100 plus strike rate in an IPL season is led by Virat Kohli…
Rohit Sharma holds the record for the most runs at Wankhede Stadium in IPL. The Mumbai Indians star has scored 2632 runs at this famous ground, far ahead of every other batter. No other player has even reached 2000 runs at Wankhede in the IPL. Wankhede is the home ground of Mumbai Indians, so it…
Yuzvendra Chahal has taken more IPL wickets at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium than anyone else. The leg spinner has 54 wickets at this ground, a remarkable number at a venue famous for flat pitches, short boundaries and huge totals. Chinnaswamy is the home of Royal Challengers Bengaluru, and it has seen the highest team total…
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