Most sixes hit by a batsman off a particular bowler in the IPL

The Indian Premier League  (IPL) is the most prestigious T20 franchise league in the world. Big hits are the order of the day in any T20 tournament, and it is no different in the IPL.

The fans would be excited for this year’s IPL taking place not only because of its uncertainty at the start due to the pandemic, but also because there are a lot of power-hitters in this year’s competition of the lucrative league.

Players like Chris Gayle, Andre Russell, Kieron Pollard, MS Dhoni, Hardik Pandya are few known names who are known for launching the ball into the stands, but also there are some unknown packages as well who are known for the power hitting in likes of Nicholas Pooran, Ishan Kishan , Shimron Hetmyer to name a few. 

Talking of big hitting, a few bowlers have also fallen prey to certain batsmen in the IPL .

So, let us look at the batsmen who have hit the most sixes of a particular bowler in IPL history: –

1. Kieron Pollard (Amit Mishra- 14 sixes off 79 balls) 

Pollard has played 148 IPL matches so far all for MI and has scored a total of 2,755 runs at an average of 28.69 and a strike rate of 146.77.  A Mumbai Indians’ veteran you can truly call him.

Whenever Pollard and leg-spinner Amit Mishra, who is the second highest wicket taker in the IPL have faced off against each other, it is the big West Indian that has gotten the better of the opposite. Pollard has plundered 14 sixes off Mishra’s bowling. Leg spin has been a potential banana skin for Pollard in the past, but he seems to be enjoying facing Mishra’s leggies.

No Mumbai Indians fan would forget the 2013 IPL onslaught by Pollard against SRH where he ended with 66 off 27 balls to win MI a game from the clutches of defeat. He had hit Mishra for three sixes in an over in that game, which turned out to be the turning point of the match. He has also smashed Mishra for five sixes in a game which was during the 2014 IPL held at UAE.

Pollard would be fancying himself against the DC leggie this time around as well in the UAE.