15-year-old Vaibhav Sooryavanshi entered his name in the record books on Saturday (May 9) by becoming the second Indian cricketer to hit 40 sixes in an IPL season. Vaibhav, who opened the innings for Rajasthan Royals in the 230-run chase against Gujarat Titans at Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur on Saturday, scored 36 runs from 16 balls and hammered 3 fours and 3 sixes during his stay at the crease. The three maximums by Vaibhav against GT helped him extend his tally of sixes to 40 in 11 matches of IPL 2026.
IPL 2026 | Schedule | Results | Orange Cap | Purple Cap
He tops the list of batters with most sixes in this year’s IPL and is overall second in the list of Indian batters with most sixes in an IPL season.
The record of hitting most sixes by
an Indian batter in an IPL season is held by Abhishek Sharma. Abhishek played 16 matches for Sunrisers Hyderabad in the 2024 edition of IPL and slammed 42 sixes.
Most sixes in an IPL season by Indian batter
| PLAYER | TEAM | MATCHES | RUNS | SIXES | YEAR |
| Abhishek Sharma | Sunrisers Hyderabad | 16 | 484 | 42 | 2024 |
| Vaibhav Sooryavanshi | Rajasthan Royals | 11 | 440 | 40 | 2026 |
| Shreyas Iyer | Punjab Kings | 17 | 604 | 39 | 2025 |
| Virat Kohli | Royal Challengers Bengaluru | 16 | 973 | 38 | 2016 |
| Virat Kohli | Royal Challengers Bengaluru | 15 | 741 | 38 | 2024 |
| Suryakumar Yadav | Mumbai Indians | 16 | 727 | 38 | 2025 |
| Rishabh Pant | Delhi Capitals | 14 | 684 | 37 | 2018 |
| Abhishek Sharma | Sunrisers Hyderabad | 11 | 475 | 36 | 2026 |
| Shivam Dube | Chennai Super Kings | 16 | 418 | 35 | 2023 |
| Ambati Rayudu | Chennai Super Kings | 16 | 602 | 34 | 2018 |
Sooryavanshi needs to hit three more sixes in the remaining matches of the ongoing season for RR to break Abhishek’s record.
The overall record of hitting most sixes in an IPL season is held by Chris Gayle. Gayle hammered 59 sixes in 15 matches of IPL 2012 for Royal Challengers Bengaluru. He also slammed 51 sixes for RCB in the 2013 edition of the IPL.
Most sixes in an IPL season
| PLAYER | TEAM | MATCHES | RUNS | SIXES | YEAR |
| Chris Gayle | Royal Challengers Bengaluru | 15 | 733 | 59 | 2012 |
| Andre Russell | Kolkata Knight Riders | 14 | 510 | 52 | 2019 |
| Chris Gayle | Royal Challengers Bengaluru | 16 | 708 | 51 | 2013 |
| Jos Buttler | Rajasthan Royals | 17 | 863 | 45 | 2022 |
| Chris Gayle | Royal Challengers Bengaluru | 12 | 608 | 44 | 2011 |
| Abhishek Sharma | Sunrisers Hyderabad | 16 | 484 | 42 | 2024 |
| Nicholas Pooran | Lucknow Super Giants | 14 | 524 | 40 | 2025 |
| Vaibhav Sooryavanshi | Rajasthan Royals | 11 | 440 | 40 | 2026 |
| Shreyas Iyer | Punjab Kings | 17 | 604 | 39 | 2025 |
In the list of batters with the most sixes in one edition of IPL, Andre Russell takes the No. 2 position. The former West Indies all-rounder scored 52 sixes for Kolkata Knight Riders in 14 matches of IPL 2019.
Before taking his sixes to 40 in IPL 2026, Vaibhav also became the first teenager to hit 100 sixes in T20s. He needed one maximum in the ongoing match vs GT to take his sixes to 100 in T20s, and he achieved the feat by hitting Mohammed Siraj for a maximum on the first ball of his innings (0.2 of RR innings).
