Top ten best batting strike rates in IPL

The Indian Premier League (IPL) is soon to enter its 14th year as the extravaganza begins by 9th April in as many as six Indian venues.

With the auction being done, the teams have chosen the best of the players to feature respectively for them in the 14th edition of the world’s cash-richest league.

Since the time it started, many big and record-breaking performances have been seen. The number of records will take days to mention these records.

In this blog, we are discussing the terrific batsmen having the best batting strike rate in IPL history. Here are the top ten best batting strike rates in IPL history.

Here are the top ten best batting strike rates in IPL:

Andre Russell:

Andre Russell of West Indies, who featured the Dinesh Karthik-led Kolkata Knight Riders in the lastly held IPL season, has maintained the highest-ever batting strike in IPL, topping the chart gathering the data of all the matches he has played.

Russell has played 61 innings of 74 matches. Outstandingly, the batter has been reliant upon 4s and 6s to maintains an SR of 182.22. He has 1517 IPL runs playing only 61 times. His innings amalgamated 105 fours and 129 sixes.

Probably, he is the rare IPL player to have the most number of sixes than the number of fours. Beginning his IPL career back in 2012, he was first auctioned by the Delhi daredevils.

Nicholas Pooran:

Nicholas Pooran ranks second when one talks about the IPL players with the best batting strike rate. West Indies-based Pooran has an SR of 165.39, featuring himself in only 20 innings yet.

It might have been relatively easy to be consistent in only 20 innings, so he has made it to the second slot. Pooran has 521 IPL runs and represented the Kings XI Punjab led by KL Rahul.

Including 33 fours and 39 sixes, 77 remains his highest score, including an overall average of 32.56. Pooran does not have a long IPL career as he had played seven matches in his inaugural edition.

Sunil Narine:

It seems like that the West Indies players are the best power hitters. Sunil Narine ranks third on the list of having the highest batting strike rate in IPL. After Russell and Poorn, Narine is another consecutive WIndies-based cricketer to make it in the list.

Having played 66 innings of 120 matches, he sustains an SR of 164.27. With the highest score of 75 runs, he has 103 fours and 52 sixes. Gathering 892 runs in his IPL career, he is looking to improve his average that is listed at 16.83.

Hardik Pandya:

Pandya is absolutely the match-winner. He has proved himself a crucial member of the squad he enters and tackles the obstacle team steps in. Numerous times, Hardik Pandya has taken the team to heights with his batting performances.

He is the first Indian with the best batting strike rate in IPL and ranks fourth, seeing the overall top ten best batting strike rate in IPL. Pandya’s SR is 159.26 at an average of 29.97.

He is a crucial part of the Rohit Sharma-led Mumbai Indians. Playing 74 innings representing 80 matches, he has gathered 1349 runs with 91 as his highest score.

Moeen Ali:

Moeen Ali of England has been featuring in the Indian Premier League since 2018. In the player auction 2018, he was bought by the Royal Challengers Bangalore.

The all-rounder could play only three IPL matches in 2020, scoring 12 runs. Playing for RCB in 17 innings of 19 games, his SR is 158.46, which is probably the highest by any RCB player yet.

Moeen has 309 runs, with 66 staying as his best, including 21 fours and 23 sixes. The Englishman is yet to slam a hundred but has three fifties to his name.

Chris Morris:

Chris Morris’s strike rate is the second-best after Moeen Ali if we discuss the RCB-based players. The overall stats make him the player owning the fifth-highest SR in IPL yet.

He has been a part of 70 IPL matches, out of which he joined the team on the field in 44 games. Morris maintains an SR of 157.87 with two fifties, including 39 fours and 30 six IPL careers.

He has been playing the Indian Premier League since 2013 and has donned the jerseys for the Chennai Super Kings, Rajasthan Royals, Delhi Daredevils, and the Royal Challengers Bangalore, respectively.

Virender Sehwag:

Sehwag is one of those oldest players who started playing IPL in 2008. Although he winded up his IPL career in 2015, his strike rate of 155.44 places him on the seventh rank among the top ten best batting strike rates in IPL.

He has played all innings of the 104 matches since 2008 and has two centuries in 8-year long IPL career. Having 16 fifties, he has gathered 334 fours and 106 sixes.

Sehwag has 2728 runs and stayed not out five times, with 122 as his highest score.

Glenn Maxwell:

Glenn Maxwell is the third player from the Royal Challengers Bangalore to list the top ten best batting strike rates in IPL. The Australian player has played 79 innings of 82 matches at a strike rate of 154.67.

Having 1505 runs with 95 as his highest score, he has an average of 22.13. Maxwell has six fifties but is yet to grasp a hundred. His career furnishes ahead, declaring 118 fours and 91 sixes. He also had played for Kings XI Punjab in 2014.

Rishabh Pant:

Rishabh Pant, the crucial player from the Delhi Daredevils, maintains a strike rate of 151.97. Proceeding his IPL career in 68 innings of 68 matches, he has gathered 2079 runs with 128* as his highest score.

This is the only hundred he yielded in his years-long IPL career with 12 fifties. Pant career includes 183 fours and 103 sixes.

AB De Villiers:

De Villiers is the third-ranked player from the RCB with the best batting strike rate. At the same time, he ranks last on the top ten best batting strike rates in IPL.

He is one of the oldest IPL players, having featured in 169 matches and playing in 156 games. He has five 100 plus partnerships for RCB and two 200 plus partnerships.

His strike rate is 151.91 having an average of 40.40 – the highest among the top ten players with the best batting strike rates in IPL.  He has three hundred and 38 fifties with 390 fours and 235 sixes.

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