Taking a wicket with the very first ball of an innings is one of the most thrilling sights in the IPL. The bowler gets only one chance, the batter has faced nothing yet, and the whole stadium explodes when that opening delivery hits the target. Through the 2025 season it had happened just 61 times…
Mumbai Indians and Royal Challengers Bengaluru share one of the most watched rivalries in the Indian Premier League. The RCB vs MI head to head record stretches back to the very first IPL season in 2008, and it has grown into a contest packed with close finishes, big scores and playoff drama. Across 36 IPL…
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi is the name every cricket fan remembers from IPL 2026. The 15 year old Rajasthan Royals opener smashed 776 runs in 16 matches to win the Orange Cap. He scored those runs at a strike rate of 237.31, the fastest scoring ever seen from a season top run getter. He also hit 72…
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….
Ishan Kishan has scored 3,600 runs in the IPL across 11 seasons from 2016 to 2026. The wicketkeeper batter began his career with Gujarat Lions, spent seven seasons with Mumbai Indians, and moved to Sunrisers Hyderabad in 2025. His best season came in 2020, when he scored 516 runs for Mumbai Indians in the UAE…
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…
Bowling strike rate is the simplest way to judge how often a bowler takes wickets. It counts the balls bowled for every wicket taken, so a lower number means the bowler strikes more often. In the IPL, the best bowling strike rate in league history belongs to Lungi Ngidi. The South African quick took a…
Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers added 229 runs for the second wicket against Gujarat Lions in 2016. That stand at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru is the highest partnership in IPL history, and it has stayed on top for more than a decade. The same pair is the only one to appear twice…
MS Dhoni holds the record for most toss wins by captains in IPL. The former Chennai Super Kings skipper has won the toss 119 times in 226 matches as captain, giving him a toss win rate of 52.65 percent. That number is far ahead of any other captain in the history of the league. The…
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