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The race for the biggest six this IPL season is still hotting up with the likes of Phil Salt, Travis Head and Nicholas Pooran in  the fray.
Salt and Head currently lead the longest sixes charts, having both smashed 105-metre sixes for their respective sides. Lucknow Super Giants’ Nicholas Pooran and Sunrisers Hyderabad’s Aniket Verma are the other batters to strike 100-metre-plus sixes thus far this edition.
The IPL has witnessed the best six-hitters in world cricket unleashing some of the biggest maximums ever struck in T20s across 17 editions. The IPL 2024 season was the biggest six-hitting edition of the Indian Premier League, with a whopping 1,260 sixes hit during the tournament. Chennai Super Kings talisman MS Dhoni had emerged as the biggest six-hitter with a 110-metre strike.
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Chennai Super Kings’ Albie Morkel struck one of the biggest sixes in the inaugural season in 2008. Interestingly, Morkel’s 124-metre maximum was equalled Praveen Kumar in the same season – the two remain at the top of the l even after 16 editions.
Longest Sixes of IPL 2025 – As of April 9

Batter
Team
Dance (m)
Match

Phil Salt
RCB
105
RCB v GT

Travis Head
SRH
105
SRH v RR

Nicholas Pooran
LSG
102
KKR v LSG

Aniket Verma
SRH
102
DC v SRH

Tran Stubbs
DC
98
DC v LSG

Nicholas Pooran
LSG
97
SRH v LSG

Sherfane Rutherford
GT
97
GT v PBKS

Ryan Rickelton
MI
97
MI v KKR

Mitchell Marsh
LSG
97
KKR v LSG

Nicholas Pooran
LSG
96
SRH v LSG

Longest Sixes in IPL hory

Pos
Player
Year
Team
Opponent
Six dance (metres)

1.
Albie Morkel
2008
CSK
DC
124

2.
Praveen Kumar
2008
RCB
RR
124

3.
Adam Gilchr
2011
PBKS
RCB
122

4.
Robin Uthappa
2010
RCB
MI
120

5.
Chris Gayle
2013
RCB
PWI
119

6.
Ross Taylor
2008
RCB
CSK
119

7.
Yuvraj Singh
2009
PBKS
CSK
119

8.
Ben Cutting
2016
SRH
RCB
117

9.
Liam Livingstone
2022
PBKS
GT
117

10.
Faf du Plessis
2023
RCB
LSG
115

Longest Sixes in each IPL season

Year
Player
Team
Six dance (metres)

2008
Albie Morkel
CSK
124

2009
Yuvraj Singh
KXIP (PBKS)
119

2010
Robin Uthappa
RCB
120

2011
Adam Gilchr
PBKS
122

2012
MS Dhoni
CSK
112

2013
Chris Gayle
RCB
119

2014
David Miller
PBKS
102

2015
AB de Villiers
RCB
108

2016
Ben Cutting
SRH
117

2017
Travis Head
RCB
109

2018
AB de Villiers
RCB
111

2019
MS Dhoni
CSK
111

2020
Nicholas Pooran
PBKS
106

2021
Ruturaj Gaikwad
CSK
108

2022
Liam Livingstone
PBKS
117

2023
Faf du Plessis
RCB
115

2024
MS Dhoni
CSK
110

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