IPL 2024: Top 5 batters with most fours in IPL history

With 750 fours, Shikhar Dhawan is way ahead of other batters with David Warner in the second spot with 646 fours.

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Suresh Raina, who has been the mainstay in the Chennai Super Kings line-up has hit a total of 506 fours in the IPL tournament. (Photo Source: Twitter)

The Indian Premier League (IPL) has earned the tag of the most popular T20 tournament in world cricket courtesy of its top-notch standards. The league has turned out to be a launchpad for the careers of many young players. Some of the youngsters prefer the IPL over first-class cricket because of its fame and the money involved and its high credentials as well. The seventeenth edition is set to kick off from Friday, March 22, 2024, as the defending champions Chennai Super Kings lock horns with the Royal Challengers Bangalore in Chennai.

For any batter to succeed in a tournament like the IPL, it is important that he is able to find boundaries at regular intervals during his team's innings. The openers get an added advantage due to field restrictions in the powerplay while the middle-order batters have to make slightly extra efforts in finding the gaps. 

Though some players have enough power to let the ball sail over the ropes for a maximum, others have to use their skills to hit fours and accelerate the innings. In this article, we are going to list out players who have hit the most fours in the history of the cash-rich league. Interestingly, not even one out of five of the players who are amongst the top 5 six hitters in the IPL find a place in the chart for most fours scored.   

IPL 2024: Top 5 batters with most fours in IPL history

India’s swashbuckling opener Shikhar Dhawan is ruling the charts with a comfortable margin in terms of most fours hit in the league. Dhawan has hit 750 fours in the IPL and has aggregated 6617 runs at an average of 35.38. Though with 148 sixes to his name in the tournament, he does not find his name in even the top 10 six hitters, however, he has compensated for it with an ample number of boundaries. He has smashed 2 centuries in the league so far, with both of them coming in IPL 2020 and that too in consecutive games, being the first player in the history of the league to achieve such a feat.      

Dhawan’s former opening partner and current Delhi Capitals captain David Warner occupies the second spot in the list. He has 646 fours in the tournament in 176 innings and has scored 6397 runs at an average of 41.53. Warner has slammed four hundreds in the marquee tournament and has 226 sixes in total till now.

Virat Kohli, who holds the record for scoring the most runs in the cash-rich league, is third on the list of most fours scored. He has hit 654 fours and 235 sixes in 231 innings and averages 37.36 in the league. His IPL numbers include seven tons and 51 fifties, with his highest score being 113. Among the seven centuries, four came in the 2016 season itself, where he amassed a record 973 runs. Virat was the leading run-getter during the T20 World Cup 2022 and might end up winning the IPL orange cup 2024, given he ends up having a season like 2016.

The joint-most successful skipper in the history of the IPL, Rohit Sharma, who has won the title for MI five times, finds himself in the fourth position in this chart. The right-handed batter has struck 554 fours and 257 maximums in 238 innings since the inaugural 2008 season. The 36-year old player has racked up 6211 runs at an average of 29.57 with one century and 42 half-centuries.

Suresh Raina, who was the mainstay in the Chennai Super Kings lineup, has hit a total of 506 fours in the tournament. He has accumulated 5528 runs in the league and is considered among the most consistent performers since the tournament's inception. The left-hander has one hundred and 39 half-centuries to his name and has smashed 203 sixes so far.

Most fours in IPL history

        Player Innings Runs Average 50/100 Fours
 Shikhar Dhawan 216 6617 35.38 50/2 750
   David Warner 176 6397 41.53 61/4 646
     Virat Kohli 231 7361 37.36 51/7 654
   Rohit Sharma 238 6211 29.57 42/1 554
   Suresh Raina 200 5528 32.51 39/1 506


*Last updated on 25th March, 2024.

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