IPL 2019: 4 All-time Batting records that will not break this season

#3 Highest Individual Score in an inning

Gayle on his way to a record 175 not out

In the very same forgetful game for Pune Warriors India (2013), Chris Gayle not only broke the most sixes (innings) record but also went on to own the highest inning score (175*). And yet again, he went on to break another of Brendon McCullum’s record of 158 runs scored in the very first game of the IPL way back in 2008. Interestingly, it is also the highest individual score in T20 format across every domestic league, including T20Is.

Just like the other record, it has been 5 years and despite the IPL being played on batsman-friendly flat pitches in relatively smaller grounds, no player had even crossed the 150 run-mark since then. Though very recently (July’18) Aaron Finch had scored 172 runs in a T20I against weak Zimbabwe, it looks like a very rare possibility that noone would break this record.

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#4 Fastest Century

Yusuf Pathan

You cannot own a record of smashing 17 sixes in an inning and not own the record of scoring the fastest century. In the very same game again, the ever destructive Chris Gayle went on to establish another record of scoring the fastest century in the IPL history. It took the Jamaican player only 30 deliveries to score another T20 century – another record in the entire T20 circuit.

On his way to a century, he expectedly broke the record, once established by Rajasthan Royal’s Yusuf Pathan (37) while playing against Mumbai Indians back in 2010’s IPL edition. Since then, only David Miller, then playing for RCB (2013 IPL edition) threatened to break the record with his extravagant century (38 deliveries) but eventually, could not break it. Though every record will break someday, this record, for now, appears safe under Chris Gayle.