Stats: Batsman With Most Hundreds In IPL History

Mar 26, 2017 at 7:40 PM

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Stats: Batsman With Most Hundreds In IPL History

In the history of IPL, a total of 27 players have scored a century with Chirs Gayle the man to cross the hundred mark most number of the times. He has a total of five centuries to his name. After Gayle comes the Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) captain Virat Kohli, who has four centuries to his name, with all the four coming in the one edition of the league. So before revealing some more names here, let’s have a look at players with most centuries in IPL-

Chris Gayle – The self-proclaimed ‘World Boss’ Chris Gayle has a total of five centuries to his name in the grandest T20 league in the world. Gayle has been part of the T20 league in the first edition of IPL but found no buyers in 2011 auction. He was roped in as a replacement for the injured Dirk Nannes by RCB in 2011 and rest is history.

Then and now, Gayle is one of the best replacements in the history of IPL. He announced his arrival with a century against Kolkata Knight Riders when RCB chased down a target of 172 with 11 balls to go. It was an ironic loss for KKR as it was this franchise only that let Gayle go.

Till now, Gayle has scored five centuries in total. It was in the year 2013 when he tore apart record books and played an innings of 175* against now defunct Pune Warriors India, a record that stands till now.  Apart from that, Gayle also holds a record for most sixes in IPL as he has clobbered a total of 251 sixes in the cash-rich league.

Virat Kohli – The year 2016 was a dream year for Virat Kohli in T20 cricket as every game he played, he broke records. He started the year with three back to back half centuries in international cricket and continued the same form in IPL as well. But in this league, his standards raised to another level.

Kohli, who did not have a century in a T20 game at that time, smashed four centuries in a span of 50 days and not just this, he also produced 973 runs with the bat at an average of 81.08 in 16 games. His first hundred came against Gujarat Lions on April 24 in Rajkot where he played an innings of 100*. Three more three-figure-mark followed and Kohli became a star of the T20 league that year.

AB De Villiers – The 360-degree man in cricket, AB De Villiers has a total of three centuries in the Indian Primer League. Incidentally, his first century came at his home in South Africa in the second edition of IPL for Delhi Daredevils, at a time when he was still establishing himself as an international career.

De Villiers’ fortune took a U-turn when he was purchased by Royal Challengers Bangalore for $1100000 in IPL auction 2011. And till date, he is one of the core players of his team.

Players with two centuries – There are a total of six players namely David Warner, Virender Sehwag, Shane Watson, Murali Vijay, Brendon McCullum and Adam Gilchrist who have crossed the three-figure mark twice. Out of these, Sehwag and Gilchrist have already retired from the T20 league.

Players with one century – A total of 18 players have been able to hit a century in IPL once. Out of these, only Paul Valthaty is the player who hasn’t played international cricket till now. Here is the list of players to score only one century in IPL –

Suresh Raina, Rohit Sharma, Yusuf Pathan, Ajinkya Rahane, Sachin Tendulkar, Shaun Marsh, Michael Hussey, Manish Pandey, Mahela Jayawardene, David Miller, Wriddhiman Saha, Steven Smith, Kevin Pietersen, Andrew Symonds, Lendl Simmons, Sanath Jayasuriya, Quinton de Kock, Paul Valthaty.

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