Top 5 Batsmen With Most Runs Scored In An IPL Season
Published - 01 Jun 2022, 12:46 AM | Updated - 23 Aug 2024, 12:08 AM
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The IPL 2022 season ended with Hardik Pandya-led Gujarat Titans winning their maiden IPL title in their debut season. The Indian team got another potential captain for the future and the biggest of them all was Hardik’s return to form and fitness. He has answered every question that all the Indian fans and experts had about his fitness.
Apart from Hardik and the team’s performance, the season will be remembered for Jos Buttler‘s belligerent batting. He scored 863 runs from 17 matches and is now the second-highest run-getter ever in an IPL season. Virat Kohli is still topping the list with his massive 973-run season in 2016.
Chris Gayle, David Warner and Kane Williamson complete the top 5 list. In this article. we take a look at the top 5 batsmen with the most runs in an IPL season and how much they scored.
Top 5 Batsmen With Most Runs Scored In An IPL Season
5) Chris Gayle- 733 Runs In 2012
Gayle had two back to back 700-plus seasons in the IPL in 2012 and 2013. He was at the peak of his batting powers in those two years. However, despite his heroics with the bat, he failed to win an IPL title for RCB till he played for them between 2011-2017. In the 2012 season, he hit 46 fours and as many as 59 sixes to make the season his own. The Universe Boss ranks fifth in IPL’s most runs scored in a single season list.
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4) Kane Williamson -735 Runs In 2018
With David Warner banned by the BCCI from playing the 2018 season due to his involvement in the Sandpapergate Scandal. SRH found an unlikely hero in Williamson. They named him the skipper and he took the responsibility with both hands. He started opening the batting and churned out eighth fifty-plus scores with a best of 84 taking them all the way to the final. SRH lost to CSK in the final but Williamson left an impact in the IPL bringing out his T20 gameplan.
3) David Warner- 848 Runs In 2016
The same year Kohli scored 973. Warner scored 848. Warner outscored Kohli in 2016 final to hand SRH their maiden IPL title. The Australian cricketer scored nine fifty-plus scores that season with a best of 93*. He hit 88 fours and 31 sixes that season.
2) Jos Buttler- 863 Runs In 2022
England’s Jos Buttler ranks second in this list of most runs scored in a single season. He scored 863 in 2022. He scored those runs in three different phases. From his first seven games, he scored 491 runs. In his next seven games, he scored 138 runs and in the final three games, he scored 234 runs. He capped off the season with four centuries that included 83 fours and 45 sixes.
1) Virat Kohli-973 Runs In 2016
Kohli finished just 27 short of what would have been a 100-run season for the former Indian skipper. That was the first season in which one batsman scored four centuries in an IPL season. Kohli was batting like a dream with every shot of his going to the boundary. 973 might never be breached again in the IPL. That season Kohli hit 83 fours and 31 sixes.
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