Most FOURS and SIXES in IPL

Here is the list of Most Fours and Sixes in IPL (Top 10)

Most SIXES

Player	Matches	Fours	Sixes
Chris Gayle	59	204	180
Suresh Raina	98	239	115
Rohit Sharma	95	202	110
Yousuf Pathan	91	153	95
Adam Gilchrist	80	239	92
Virender Sehwag	79	266	85
MS Dhoni	95	166	84
Yuvraj Singh	70	107	82
Shane Watson	53	174	81
Virat Kohli	93	218	71

Most FOURS

Player	Matches	Sixes	Fours
Sachin Tendulkar	78	29	295
Gautam Gambhir	88	37	291
Virender Sehwag	79	85	266
Rahul Dravid	88	28	260
Jacques Kallis	90	40	242
Suresh Raina	98	115	239
Adam Gilchrist	80	92	239
Virat Kohli	93	71	218
Chris Gayle	59	180	204
Rohit Sharma	94	110	202

(Updated till 23rd may) 

Most Wins in IPL

Chennai Super Kings became the first team to win 50 matches in IPL. 

Here is the list of wins by all teams season by season.

Team	Matches	Wins in 2008	Wins in  2009	Wins in 2010	Wins in  2011	Wins in 2012	Wins in 2013	Total Wins
CSK	98	9	8	9	11	10	12	59
MI	93	7	5	11	10	10	11	54
RCB	94	4	9	8	10	8	9	48
RR	89	13	6	6	6	7	11	49
DD	91	7	10	7	4	11	3	42
KKR	88	6	3	7	8	12	6	42
KXIP	89	10	7	4	7	8	8	44
DC	75	2	9	8	6	4	-	29
PWI	46	-	-	-	4	4	4	12
SRH	17	-	-	-	-	-	10	10
KTK	14	-	-	-	6	-	-	6

Most wins in IPL

Updated till 23rd May 2013

A hat trick is an achievement in cricket, by bowlers, when they take 3 wickets off their 3 consecutive legal balls in a match.

Note : A hat trick can extend to 2 overs and even to 2 innings in Test Matches.

Hat Tricks in IPL

As of on 17th April 2013, there have been 11 hat tricks in the Indian Premier League. The first bowler to take Hat Trick in IPL was Lakshmipathy Balaji for the Super kings vs the Kings XI Punjab at Chennai on 10th May in the first edition of IPL

01. Lakshmipathy BALAJI, CSK vs KXIP, Chennai,2008 

Balaji dismissed Irfan Pathan (Caught), Piyush Chawla (Caught) and VRV Singh (Caught) on the 3rd, 4th and 55th delivery of the final over of the match and CSK won the match by 18 Run s. Balaji finished with 5/24 and was awarded the Man of the Match.

Super Overs and Tied Matches in IPL

There have been only 4 matches tied in all the editions of IPL so far.

Here is the list of all the Super Overs played in IPL so far:

SUPER OVER No.1, KKR vs RR, Cape Town, 23rd April 2009

Yusuf Pathan was the hero for Rajasthan Royals

This happened to be the first tied game in IPL – the 10th match of the second season played in South Africa. The match was tied, with both teams scoring 150 runs. Kolkata needed 2 runs off the last ball but could score only one; the match was tied and super over was played to decide the winner.

Super Over

Statistical Highlights of IPL 6 - Week 1

Here are all the achievements, records, facts and stats of the First Week of IPL (3rd April to 6th April, 2013) , match by match.

MATCH NO.1, KKR vs DD, Kolkata, 3rd April 2013 

* Unmukt Chand became the 15th Batsmen to be dismissed FIRST BALL of the INNINGS in IPL  and 2nd batsman after Manoj Tiwari in 2010 to be dismissed off FIRST BALL of a SEASON in IPL

* Mahela Jayawardene scored his 9th IPL 50 and also completed his 1500 IPL Runs. He became the 16th Batsman to complete 1500 Runs in IPL.

* Manprit Juneja scored his First IPL Run in career, making his debut.

* Sunil Narine became the Highest Wicket Taker for KKR in IPL, overcoming Ishant Sharma’s tally of 25 wickets. He now has 28 wickets for KKR 

* Figures of 4/13 by Narine are the 3rd Best Figures against DD in IPL after Malinga’s 5/13 and Shoaib Akhtar’s 4/11.

* Sunil Narine joined Anil Kumble, Lakshmipathi Balaji, Lasith Malinga and Munaf Patel to take 3 4 wicket hauls in IPL Career.

* Sunil Narine features in 3 of the Top 5 Bowling Figures for KKR in IPL

* DD’s total of 128 is their 5th Lowest Total in First Innings in IPL. Lowest being 95 vs MI in 2011.

* Yousuf Pathan completed his 1500 IPL Career Runs. He is the 17th achieve that.

* KKR completed their 6th Win against DD in 10 matches they played.

* Sunil Narine received his 5th Man of the Match award in IPL.

MATCH No.2, RCB vs MI, Bangalore, 4th April 2013 

* Tillakaratne Dishan bagged his 6th IPL Duck. Only Manish Pandey, Amit Mishra, Shane Warne and Parthiv Patel has more than him.

Best Opening Pairs in IPL

I have listed the best Opening Pairs and Partnerships in Indian Premier League History. 

Most Aggregate Runs by Opening Partners 

Innings	Runs	Batsman1	Batsman2	For	Avg	50s	100s	HS
28	1105	Mike Hussey	Murali Vijay	CSK	40.92	8	2	159
19	705	Chris Gayle	Tillakaratne Dilshan	RCB	47.47	6	2	167
24	842	Adam Gilchrist	Herschelle Gibbs	DC	35.08	6	1	101
24	732	Virender Sehwag	Gautam Gambhir	DD	30.5	4	1	122
29	728	Virender Sehwag	David Warner	DD	25.6	1	1	146
20	718	Sanath Jayasuriya	Sachin Tendulkar	MI	35.9	4	1	127
19	705	Rahul Dravid	Ajinkya Rahane	RR	44.06	7	0	99
10	533	Brendon McCullum	Gautam Gambhir	KKR	53.33	4	1	113
17	516	Adam Gilchrist	Paul Valthaty	KXIP	30.35	2	1	136
15	496	Matthew Hayden	Parthiv Patel	CSK	33.06	4	1	106

Only pair to add 1000+ runs opening in IPL