BPL Batting Records: Most sixes in an innings

Introduction to the BPL 

The Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) is a major Twenty20 cricket league consisting of seven franchises. It is one of three professional cricket championships of Bangladesh. Also, BPL is the world’s 16th most-watched premier league in the world. In the winter league, each team faces the other team twice in the stage. Following the outcome of regular season, the top four teams proceed to the playoffs, which have a single-elimination game and two qualifiers, resulting in the final Championship game between the winners of two qualifiers.

It was in 2011 that the the Bangladesh Cricket Board formed the Bangladesh Premier League. Also, predecessor organisation, the 2009/10 National Cricket League Twenty20 was suspended then.

The first season of game was held in February 2012 between Dhaka and Chittagong. The chairman of the Governing Council supervises the BPL. The defending champion, Comilla Victorians was awarded their third title and became the joint most successful team with Franchises of Dhaka.

In this article, we will discuss the most sixes hit in an innings. Currently, a known West indies’ batsman Chris Gayle holds the record for most sixes hit in a T20 inning. He has it with an brilliant figure of 18 in a single inning.  The Caribbean star batsman has hit the milestone during the final game of the 2017 Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) which involved Rangpur Riders and  Dhaka Dynamites. Gayle is known to have struck 146 runs against 69 balls in the final for his team Rangpur Riders, consisting five fours and eighteen sixes.

Most sixes in an innings

Batsman	Team	Sixes	Score	Venue	Season	Opponent
Chris Gayle	Rangpur Riders	18	146*	Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium	2017	Dhaka Dynamites
Chris Gayle	Rangpur Riders	14	126*		2017	Khulna Titans
Chris Gayle	Dhaka Gladiators	12	114		2013	Sylhet Royals
Chris Gayle	Barisal Burners	11	116		2012	Dhaka Gladiators
Tamim Iqbal	Comilla Victorians	11	141*		2019	Dhaka Dynamites

 

Chris Gayle in the match of 2017 against Dhaka Dynamites 

Rangpur Riders concluded their 20 over in the BPL with a total of 206/1 when Chris Gayle cracked an unbeaten 146 off 69 balls. Gayle has striked 18 sixes during his innings, surpassing his own record for most sixes in a T20 inning. The 38-year-old Jamaican struck 17 sixes during his record-breaking 66-ball 175 not out for Royal Challengers Bangalore in opposition to Pune Warriors in the 2013 IPL.

He gathered 11,000 runs in the shortest version of the game. Also, he became the very foremost player to collect 20 centuries in T20s and the first player in the BPL to collect 100 maximums.

Chris Gayle in the match of 2017 against Khulna Titans 

Khulna’s total of 167 was projected to be a competitive total, and that perception was reaffirmed at the start of Rangpur’s innings when Sohag Gazi was caught for one and Brendon McCullum was dropped for zero only within third over.

Gayle stroked fifty in 23 deliveries with a pull shot off Mohammad Irfan. He decided to stay and gain the game for Rangpur. All in all, it was a composed performance of a West Indian player by giving an illustration of pacifying an inning in the game’s brief version. While Gayle was devastated, Mohammed Mithun knocked a 36-ball 30 who came after McCullum was knocked.  Gayle terminated with a century in 45 deliveries, outstanding the 168-run goal.

Chris Gayle in the match of 2013 against Sylhet Royals

The West Indies batsman scored five fours and twelve sixes in his sparkling 46-ball century, that single-handedly moved the Dhaka Gladiators to the final of the BPL’s second season. Sylhet Royals, lead by team captain Mushfiqur Rahim, worked boldly, but Dhaka’s 197 were four runs too far. From 14^th over onwards, the newly granted Suhrawardi Shuvo was splintered for three sixes and a boundary. Gayle scored eight sixes and a four over the following four overs. Gayle stormed from 55 to 100 in just 10 balls owing to his dexterity. Gayle was left at short third-man on 99, but he smacked century a ball later in that over.

Chris Gayle in the match of 2012 against Dhaka Gladiators 

Barisal went on to reach the final, an advancement that few anticipated with Chris Gayle. Chris stroke 116 runs in that match with a total of 11 sixes.

Tamim Iqbal in the match 2019 against Dhaka Dynamites 

The Dhaka Dynamites achieved everything a franchise would require to win the BPL. Comilla Victorians, on the other hand, had something better in the gruise of a single player. Opener Tamim Iqbal performed potentially the greatest innings of the sixth edition, which featured hundreds from Ab de Villiers, Alex Hales, and Evin Lewis, and nearly single-handedly won the championship for Comilla as they edged Dhaka by 17 runs.

Tamim’s batting performance during an unmatched 61-ball 141, , the second-highest individual score in the Bangladesh Premier League following Rangpur Riders opener Chris Gayle’s 146 in the earlier edition’s final versus Dhaka, captivated a packed Mirpur crowd.

 

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