List of records and statistics in Indian Premier League

Indian Premier League is considered one of the biggest leagues in the cricket world. When IPL started in 2008 with eight teams it was believed that this will be a normal league as Twenty20 Big Bash, which took place from 2005-6 to 2011-12. But no one would have thought how much popularity and class this league will earn. Nowadays IPL is the toughest cricket league in the world. Started with eight teams now the fifteenth edition of the Indian Premier League in 2022 has 10 teams. Two new teams have been added to IPL 2022 Lucknow Super Giants and Gujrat Titans named after cities Lucknow and Ahemdabad respectively.
Indian Premier League has come this far with many ups and downs but it has established itself to be the most successful T20 league in world cricket. We've witnessed hundreds of amazing performances and been through thousands of emotions in the past seasons, let's look at one of the all-time IPL records help by teams or individual records held by players. Here is the list of all-time records and statistics in the Indian Premier League.

Most runs in IPL history

Who scored most runs in IPL history? Virat Kohli is the batsman who scored the most runs in IPL history. Virat Kohli has scored 6283 runs in 199 innings with an average of 37.39 and a strike rate being 129.94. He has made 5 hundred and 42 half-centuries in the IPL till 2021.

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Here is the list of top-6 most run-scorer in IPL history till now

No.	Player	Mat	Inns	Runs	HS	Avg	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s
1	V Kohli	195	187	5949	113	37.89	4,560	130.46	5	39	512	201
2	S Raina	195	191	5430	100*	33.31	3,959	137.15	1	39	497	198
3	D Warner	145	145	5347	126	42.43	3,787	141.19	4	49	519	198
4	R Sharma	203	198	5324	109*	31.31	4,076	130.61	1	39	464	217
5	S Dhawan	179	178	5307	106*	34.68	4,171	127.23	2	42	605	110
6	de Villiers	172	159	4974	133*	40.77	3,258	152.67	3	39	403	240

Notations: HS- Highest Score, BF- Ball Faced, SR- Strike Rate

Most wickets in IPL history

Who took most wickets in IPL history? Former Sri Lankan speedster Lasith Malinga was player who clinched most wickets in IPL history. Lasith Malinga holds the record of most wickets in Indian Premier League. He registered 170 wickets in 122 matches for Mumbai Indians from 2009 to 2019. He Played his last season in 2019 and is still the leading wicket taker in IPL.

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Here is the list of top-6 most wicket takers in IPL history

No.	Player	Mat	Inns	ov	Runs	Wkts	bbf	Avg	Econ	4w	5w
1	Lasith Malinga	122	122	471.1	3,366	170	5/13	19.80	7.14	6	1
2	Mishra	151	151	529.5	3,898	160	5/17	24.36	7.35	3	1
3	Chawla	164	163	541.4	4,263	156	4/17	27.32	7.87	2	0
4	Bravo	142	139	458	3,835	155	4/22	24.74	8.37	2	0
5	Harbhajan Singh	163	160	569.2	4,030	150	5/18	26.86	7.07	1	1
6	Ravichandran Ashwin	157	154	549.2	3,790	139	4/34	27.26	6.89	1	0

Notations: OV- Overs, BBF- Best Bowling Figure, 4W- 4 wickets in an over, 5W- 5 wickets in an over

Most centuries in IPL history

We have explained to you who is the most runs scorer and most wicket-taker in IPL history. Now we all know that IPL is a league for hard hitters as well as quality players who can score big scores in the match. It does make you think Who has the record of most centuries in IPL? Answer is Christopher Henry Gayle holds the record of scoring most centuries in IPL history. Because of his hard-hitting, He is also known as Universe Boss of the cricket world. He has 6 IPL centuries with a strike rate of 148.96 in 142 matches.

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Here is the list of top-6 most hundreds scorer in IPL history

No	Player	Mat	Ins	Runs	Hs	Avg	Sr	100	50	4s	6s
1	Gayle	125	124	4484	175*	41.13	151.02	6	28	369	326
2	Kohli	177	169	5412	113	37.84	131.61	5	36	480	191
3	Warner	126	126	4706	126	43.17	142.39	4	44	458	181
4	Watson	134	130	3575	117*	31.08	139.53	4	19	343	177
5	de Villiers	154	142	4395	133*	39.95	151.23	3	33	357	212
6	Ajinkya Rahane	140	132	3820	105*	32.93	121.92	2	27	404	74

Notations: HS- Highest Score, SR- Strike Rate

Best Bowling figures in an inning in IPL history

Who has the best Bowling Figures in an inning in IPL? Alzarri Joseph holds the record for best bowling figures in an IPL inning. He played magnificent game for Mumbai Indians in a thrilling match against SRH and clinched 6 wickets for just 12 runs. It was a low scoring match while batting first MI scored only 136 runs and it looks so easy to win match for SRH but Alzarri had different plans and with his help Mumbai Indians bundled Sunrisers Hyderabad for just 96 runs losing the match by 40 runs.

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Here is the list of top-5 Best Bowling figures in an inning in IPL history

Rank	Figures	Player	Team	Opposition	Venue	Date
1	6/12	Alzarri Joseph	MI	SRH	Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium Hyderabad, India	6 April 2019
2	6/14	Sohail Tanvir	RR	CSK	Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur, India	4 May 2008
3	6/19	Adam Zampa	RPS	SRH	Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium Visakhapatnam, India	10 May 2016
4	5/5	Anil Kumble	RCB	RR	Newlands, Cape Town, South Africa	18 April 2009
5	5/12	Ishant Sharma	DC	KTK	Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium Kochi India	27 April 2011

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