Number One – Chris Gayle (175* off 66 balls) 17 sixes against Kochi Tuskers on April 23, 2013, at Bengaluru:
Chris Gayle is one of the true characters of the game of cricket and he becomes invincible when it comes to the Twenty20 carnival.
The giant force Gayle becomes devastating when he holds the big bat to wield the bat like an axe.
The West Indies recruit has played a significant role for Indian Premier League franchise Royal Challengers Bangalore season after another.
The brute force has played 92 IPL matches in which he has smashed 251 sixes which is a record number in terms of sixes in IPL.
Who could forget his unbeaten 175-run knock of the sixth IPL edition in the 31st match against Pune Warriors at Bengaluru where he had taken the Warriors’ bowlers to the cleaners during his 102-minute stay at the crease before Bangalore won the match by 130 runs as Warriors were bundled out for 133 runs?
The left-handed batsman Gayle puts on minimum efforts to get the maximum result and he was outstanding with the bat on April 23rd in 2013. His gusty knock at the strike-rate of 265.15 was laced with 17 sixes in which several cleared the long distance like Gayle sets his stance.
The blazing performance from Gayle is topping the charts of most sixes in an innings so far in all past nine IPL editions.