The Indian Premier League (IPL) is one of the most competitive and popular domestic T20 tournaments on the planet. In the last twelve seasons, the tournament has seen some sensational batting performances and some of the best bowlers have demonstrated their skills on the cricket pitch. Let’s have a look at the most interesting IPL records -
A talented platform of batsmen, who have shown a tremendous show of play in this tournament, helped raise the standard of the competition every year. The Orange Cap is awarded to the batsman who scores the most runs in the tournament. IPL has seen some incredible batting efforts since the beginning and many records have been established as well as broken by the players.
Season |
Player |
Team |
Runs |
2008 |
Shaun Marsh |
Kings XI Punjab |
616 |
2009 |
Matthew Hayden |
Chennai Super Kings |
572 |
2010 |
Mumbai Indians |
618 |
|
2011 |
Royal Challengers Bangalore |
608 |
|
2012 |
Royal Challengers Bangalore |
733 |
|
2013 |
Michael Hussey |
Chennai Super Kings |
733 |
2014 |
Kolkata Knight Riders |
660 |
|
2015 |
David Warner |
Sunrisers Hyderabad |
562 |
2016 |
Royal Challengers Bangalore |
973 |
|
2017 |
David Warner |
Sunrisers Hyderabad |
641 |
2018 |
Sunrisers Hyderabad |
735 |
|
2019 |
David Warner |
Sunrisers Hyderabad |
692 |
In all these editions of the IPL, bowlers have proved that their role in the tournament is as important as the batsmen. The Purple Cap is awarded to the bowler taking the most wickets in the tournament. The league has witnessed some spectacular bowling efforts since the beginning of the tournament. MS Dhoni-led CSK has won most number of purple caps (four) despite being out of the tournament for two years.
Season |
Player |
Team |
Wickets |
2008 |
Sohail Tanvir |
Rajasthan Royals |
22 |
2009 |
Deccan Chargers |
23 |
|
2010 |
Deccan Chargers |
21 |
|
2011 |
Mumbai Indians |
28 |
|
2012 |
Delhi Daredevils |
25 |
|
2013 |
Chennai Super Kings |
32 |
|
2014 |
Chennai Super Kings |
23 |
|
2015 |
Chennai Super Kings |
26 |
|
2016 |
Sunrisers Hyderabad |
23 |
|
2017 |
Sunrisers Hyderabad |
26 |
|
2018 |
Andrew Tye |
Kings XI Punjab |
24 |
2019 |
Imran Tahir |
Chennai Super Kings |
26 |
IPL introduced the Most Valuable Player rating system in 2013, in which the players who have performed well are honoured with the title at the end of the season. From the opening season of IPL to 2012, it was known as the Man of the Tournament award.
Season |
Player |
Team |
2008 |
Rajasthan Royals |
|
2009 |
Deccan Chargers |
|
2010 |
Mumbai Indians |
|
2011 |
Royal Challengers Bangalore |
|
2012 |
Kolkata Knight Riders |
|
2013 |
Rajasthan Royals |
|
2014 |
Kings XI Punjab |
|
2015 |
Andre Russell |
Kolkata Knight Riders |
2016 |
Royal Challengers Bangalore |
|
2017 |
Rising Pune Supergiants |
|
2018 |
Kolkata Knight Riders |
|
2019 |
Andre Russell |
Kolkata Knight Riders |
The Fair Play Award is given to the team with the best record of fair play after each season. The winning teams are decided on the basis of points awarded by the umpires. The criteria for the award is based on how a team has shown the “spirit of the sport”, respect shown towards the opponents, umpires and the laws of cricket.
Season |
Team |
2008 |
Chennai Super Kings |
2009 |
Kings XI Punjab |
2010 |
Chennai Super Kings |
2011 |
Chennai Super Kings |
2012 |
Rajasthan Royals |
2013 |
Chennai Super Kings |
2014 |
Chennai Super Kings |
2015 |
Chennai Super Kings |
2016 |
Sunrisers Hyderabad |
2017 |
Gujarat Lions |
2018 |
Mumbai Indians |
2019 |
Sunrisers Hyderabad |
In all the seasons of the IPL, some batsmen have maintained their batting form by scoring back to back runs in the matches. Here’s a list of most number of runs scored in all-time in which Indian captain Virat Kohli is at number one.
Number |
Player |
Matches |
Runs |
1 |
Virat Kohli |
177 |
5412 |
2 |
Suresh Raina |
193 |
5368 |
3 |
Rohit Sharma |
188 |
4898 |
4 |
David Warner |
126 |
4706 |
5 |
Shikhar Dhawan |
159 |
4579 |
6 |
Chris Gayle |
125 |
4484 |
7 |
MS Dhoni |
190 |
4432 |
8 |
Robin Uthappa |
177 |
4411 |
9 |
AB de Villiers |
154 |
4395 |
10 |
Gautam Gambhir |
154 |
4217 |
In the last 12 seasons, this tournament of T20 cricket has been mostly in favour of the batsmen where a lot of batsmen have scored a massive amount of runs in an innings. Here’s a list -
Number |
Player |
Runs |
Against |
1 |
Chris Gayle |
175* |
Pune Warriors India |
2 |
Brendon McCullum |
158* |
Royal Challengers Bangalore |
3 |
AB de Villiers |
133* |
Mumbai Indians |
4 |
AB de Villiers |
129* |
Gujarat Lions |
5 |
Chris Gayle |
128* |
Deccan Chargers |
6 |
Rishabh Pant |
128* |
Sunrisers Hyderabad |
7 |
Murali Vijay |
127 |
Rajasthan Royals |
8 |
David Warner |
126 |
Kolkata Knight Riders |
9 |
Virender Sehwag |
122 |
Chennai Super Kings |
10 |
Paul Valthaty |
120* |
Chennai Super Kings |
From the beginning of the tournament, bowlers have also been dominating the tournament with their bowling. Here’s a list of the bowlers who have taken the most number of wickets on the basis of their excellent bowling.
Number |
Player |
Matches |
Wickets |
1 |
Lasith Malinga |
122 |
170 |
2 |
Amit Mishra |
147 |
157 |
3 |
Harbhajan Singh |
160 |
150 |
4 |
Piyush Chawla |
157 |
150 |
5 |
Dwayne Bravo |
134 |
147 |
6 |
Bhuvneshwar Kumar |
117 |
133 |
7 |
Ravichandran Ashwin |
139 |
125 |
8 |
Sunil Narine |
110 |
122 |
9 |
Umesh Yadav |
119 |
119 |
10 |
Ravindra Jadeja |
170 |
108 |
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