IPL: The Indian Premier League (IPL) is a cricket festival in India and worldwide. In this season, the IPL will complete its 16 glorious years.
Even a world pandemic situation like COVID-19 couldn’t stop the BCCI from hosting this cash-rich league tournament and since 2008, every season is a grand success.
The batsmen generally possess a six-hitting ability. This ability is highly appreciated in this tournament. It is not easy for any batsmen to dispatch the balls into the stands.
Still, the batsmen do it with ease to keep their fans' support and as per the team demands from them to do so.
Christopher Henry Gayle, the former RCB player has the record for hitting the most sixes in the tournament’s history. He has also scored the most runs in the shortest T20 format.
But sadly the Gayle Storm has stopped entertaining the crowds of the cash-rich league tournament. Gayle has smashed 357 sixes in his IPL career.
Chris Gayle also has scored the most runs in the T20 format overall. Today we shall bring the names of 5 Overseas batsmen who have smashed the longest sixes in the history of the Indian Premier League (IPL).
The overseas batters also play a vital part in this tournament and their participation cannot be ignored.
The former South African bowling all-rounder Albie Morkel has smashed the biggest six as an overseas batter. He has hit the longest six of 125 meters, which is the longest in this cash-rich league tournament.
Morkel played for the Chennai Super Kings (CSK) in the first edition of the IPL 2008 season. He achieved this feat against Deccan Charger’s bowler Pragyan Ojha.
The Aussie wicket-keeper batsman was the tailor-made player for the T20 format. He had an aggressive approach as the opener in the ODI format and he used that similar process in the T20Is and IPL also.
Adam Gilchrist stands second on the list. Gilly had smashed six of 122 meters. He achieved this record when he played for the Kings XI Punjab. Adam Gilchrist achieved this feat against RCB bowler Charl Langeveldt.
The West Indian power-hitter has also smashed the longest six in the tournament. Apart from hitting the most sixes and scoring the most runs in the Indian Premier League, hitting the longest six is just another feather in his big hat.
Chris Gayle was a pure entertainer of cricket and he played in all the leagues in the world. The Universal Boss played for Royal Challengers Bangalore in the IPL 2013 season and he smashed six of 119 meters against Ashok Dinda, the bowler from Rising Pune Super Giants.
Gayle also achieved the highest individual score of unbeaten 175 runs against the same team in the IPL.
The legendary batsman from the Kiwi nation is also present in this list. Ross Taylor is known to be a technically sound batsman in all three formats.
He also played in the Indian Premier League. In the first season of this cash-rich league tournament, Ross Taylor played for Royal Challengers Bangalore.
He smashed the longest six of 119 metres in the tournament’s history. Taylor achieved this feat against his countrymen Jacob Oram, who played for Chennai Super Kings.
The Aussie fast bowler is also on this list. Ben uses a lot of power while hitting the white ball. He rarely relies on timing.
In the title-winning year of the IPL 2016 season, Ben Cutting played the knock of his life for the Orange Army Sunrisers Hyderabad against Royal Challengers Bangalore.
He scored a quickfire of 39 runs and allowed SRH to clinch their maiden title. In this process, he also hit six of 117 meters against Shane Watson who played for the RCB team.
