When the Indian Premier League (IPL) first started, it was a step into the unknown. Nobody quite knew what it would turn out to be. It came on the back of India’s success in the 2007 <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/ms-dhoni-reveals-how-india-prepared-for-the-bowl-out-situation-against-pakistan-in-world-t20-2007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">World T20</a>. However, in the first couple of years, it was mainly the overseas stars dominating the tournament.

A lot of records belonged to the overseas players after the first couple of seasons. But the Indians slowly started to catch up and have broken quite a few of them as well. There are certain records that the <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/five-bowlers-who-can-trouble-indian-batsmen-in-the-world-test-championship/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Indian</a> players have broken and some of them are all-time ones as well.

Here we look at five Indian records in the history of the IPL:

Yusuf Pathan holds the record for the fastest IPL ton by an Indian

<img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-248391" src="https://crictracker-admin-panel-08032022.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/media/attachments/Yusuf-Pathan.jpg" alt="Yusuf Pathan" width="640" height="400" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-248391" class="wp-caption-text">Yusuf Pathan of Sunrisers Hyderabad. (Photo by Surjeet Yadav/IANS)</figcaption>

Yusuf Pathan was one of the stars for the Rajasthan Royals (RR) in their title-winning run in 2008. But he went through a slump in 2009 before storming his way back into reckoning in 2010. In the second match of the third edition of the IPL, Pathan almost pulled off a miraculous win for RR.

Thanks to fifties from <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/lets-give-mohammad-azharuddin-time-to-read-into-ambati-rayudus-corruption-claims-saad-bin-jung/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Ambati Rayudu</a> and Saurabh Tiwary, MI reached 212 in their 20 overs. In reply, RR were reduced to 66/4 in the 10th over and Pathan was already at the crease. He was batting on 14 off 11 balls and then that fall of the fourth wicket triggered and the Baroda all-rounder simply went berserk.

He got to his half-century in 21 balls as he belted the bowlers around. In no time, the hundred was up and it just took 16 deliveries for Pathan to move from 50 to 100. Thus, it became the fastest IPL ton scored by an Indian (37 balls). Almost a decade has passed and the record is still intact.

Virat Kohli was the first Indian to score multiple hundreds in a single season

<img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-334322" src="https://crictracker-admin-panel-08032022.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/media/attachments/Virat-Kohli-RCB.jpg" alt="Virat Kohli" width="640" height="400" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-334322" class="wp-caption-text">Virat Kohli. (Photo: Kuntal Chakrabarty/IANS)</figcaption>

In 2016, Virat Kohli was batting on another level. Irrespective of any format, Kohli was on top of his game and was constantly getting big scores. In fact, 2016 was his best year as far as T20s are concerned. Be it international or the IPL, Kohli piled on the runs like never before.

Before the 2016 season, there was a lot of talk about how Kohli doesn’t have a single IPL hundred. However, when he scored his first IPL ton in 2016, the<a href="https://www.crictracker.com/parthiv-patel-seemed-unimpressed-after-rcb-asked-fans-to-choose-one-opener-between-him-and-devdutt-padikkal/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> RCB</a> skipper scored as many as three more double tons in the same season. He just kept getting better and better in that season.

Kohli scored a staggering 973 runs in that season and averaged 81.08. He scored four tons in a single season and was batting like a dream. He could well bat anywhere and anyhow. The first person to achieve this feat of scoring multiple tons in a single season was Chris Gayle but as far as the Indians are concerned, <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/anushka-wasnt-in-the-selectors-box-virat-kohli-on-the-farokh-engineer-controversy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Kohli</a> became the first to do it.

Manish Pandey was the first Indian to score a ton

<img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-350806" src="https://crictracker-admin-panel-08032022.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/media/attachments/CT_362717.jpg" alt width="640" height="400" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-350806" class="wp-caption-text">Manish Pandey (Photo: IANS)</figcaption>

It was a bit surprising that for almost two seasons there was not one Indian batsman who scored a century. As many as six players scored tons across 2008 and 2009 and five of those came in 2008. But the drought ended when the second season nearly came to an end.

It was Manish Pandey who broke the jinx and put his name in the history books. He became the first-ever Indian player to score a hundred in the IPL. In the final group stage encounter of the 2009 season, <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/stats-manish-pandey-and-ankit-rajpoot-set-new-indian-records-in-syed-mushtaq-ali-t20-trophy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Pandey</a> was playing just his third game of the tournament and he simply grabbed all the limelight.

Pandey scored an unbeaten 114 off 73 balls as he led <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/ipl-2020-3-players-rcb-can-target-on-mike-hessons-advice-in-the-auction/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">RCB</a>’s charge with the bat. He was the reason they got to 170 batting first. No other batsman crossed the 25-run mark. He made history with that knock as he became the first Indian and also just the second uncapped batsman (at the time, after Shaun Marsh) to score an IPL hundred.

Sachin Tendulkar became the first Indian to win the Orange Cap

<img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-121879" src="https://crictracker-admin-panel-08032022.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/media/attachments/Sachin-Tendulkar-IPL-MI.jpg" alt="Sachin Tendulkar IPL MI" width="600" height="409" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-121879" class="wp-caption-text">Sachin Tendulkar(Photo Source: Twitter)</figcaption>

For the first couple of seasons, it was the overseas batsmen who dominated the IPL. In the first season, it was Shaun Marsh who took the tournament by storm as he scored 616 runs in 11 games while playing for the Kings XI Punjab. <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/world-cup-2019-matthew-hayden-hopes-for-another-india-australia-clash-perhaps-in-final/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Matthew Hayden</a> won the Orange Cap in the second season as he amassed 572 runs in 12 matches.

But in 2010, the tide turned and none other than the great Sachin Tendulkar broke the Indian hoodoo. He had a phenomenal season where he led the Mumbai Indians (MI) to the final for the first time in three years. He scored 618 runs at an average of 47.53. Moreover, he had a strike-rate of 132.61.

Since then, only two Indians have won the Orange Cap. In 2014, it was Robin Uthappa who had a great run as his 660 runs in the tournament helped<a href="https://www.crictracker.com/ipl-2020-3-players-kkr-shouldve-released-but-didnt/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> KKR </a>lift the title. In 2016, Virat Kohli was batting on another level. He scored a mind-boggling 973 runs and led RCB to the final of that season.

Balachandra Akhil has the best strike-rate by an Indian in an innings

<img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-377150" src="https://crictracker-admin-panel-08032022.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/media/attachments/Balachandra-Akhil.jpg" alt="Balachandra Akhil" width="640" height="400" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-377150" class="wp-caption-text">Balachandra Akhil. (Photo Source: Twitter)</figcaption>

There may not be a lot of people who remember or know Balachandra Akhil. He was an all-rounder from Karnataka who was around in domestic cricket for about 12-13 years. He was constantly in and out of the Karnataka side as well but managed to play 51 first-class games, 69 List ‘A’ games and 35 T20s.

In the IPL, he was a part of the Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) side for the first three years before he moved to Kochi Tuskers Kerala (KTK) in 2011. Akhil holds a record no one would expect him to. The Bangalore-born all-rounder struck a seven-ball 27 against Deccan Chargers in 2008 to lead RCB to a win while they were chasing 166.

That 27 not out off just seven balls has gone on to become the fourth-best in terms strike-rate in an innings. Chris Morris, Albie Morkel and AB de Villiers are the only ones above him when you consider innings of more than 25 runs. Thus, Akhil’s strike-rate of 385.71 is the best by an Indian in a single IPL innings.

When the Indian Premier League (IPL) first started, it was a step into the unknown. Nobody quite knew what it would turn out to be. It came on the back of India’s success in the 2007 <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/ms-dhoni-reveals-how-india-prepared-for-the-bowl-out-situation-against-pakistan-in-world-t20-2007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">World T20</a>. However, in the first couple of years, it was mainly the overseas stars dominating the tournament.
A lot of records belonged to the overseas players after the first couple of seasons. But the Indians slowly started to catch up and have broken quite a few of them as well. There are certain records that the <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/five-bowlers-who-can-trouble-indian-batsmen-in-the-world-test-championship/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Indian</a> players have broken and some of them are all-time ones as well.
Here we look at five Indian records in the history of the IPL:
<h3>Yusuf Pathan holds the record for the fastest IPL ton by an Indian</h3>
<figure id="attachment_248391" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-248391" style="max-width: 100%; margin: 0;" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><amp-img class="size-full wp-image-248391" src="https://crictracker-admin-panel-08032022.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/media/attachments/Yusuf-Pathan.jpg" alt="Yusuf Pathan" width="640" height="400" layout="responsive" style="max-width: 100%; margin: 0;"></amp-img><figcaption id="caption-attachment-248391" class="wp-caption-text">Yusuf Pathan of Sunrisers Hyderabad. (Photo by Surjeet Yadav/IANS)</figcaption></figure>
Yusuf Pathan was one of the stars for the Rajasthan Royals (RR) in their title-winning run in 2008. But he went through a slump in 2009 before storming his way back into reckoning in 2010. In the second match of the third edition of the IPL, Pathan almost pulled off a miraculous win for RR.
Thanks to fifties from <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/lets-give-mohammad-azharuddin-time-to-read-into-ambati-rayudus-corruption-claims-saad-bin-jung/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Ambati Rayudu</a> and Saurabh Tiwary, MI reached 212 in their 20 overs. In reply, RR were reduced to 66/4 in the 10th over and Pathan was already at the crease. He was batting on 14 off 11 balls and then that fall of the fourth wicket triggered and the Baroda all-rounder simply went berserk.
He got to his half-century in 21 balls as he belted the bowlers around. In no time, the hundred was up and it just took 16 deliveries for Pathan to move from 50 to 100. Thus, it became the fastest IPL ton scored by an Indian (37 balls). Almost a decade has passed and the record is still intact.

<h3>Virat Kohli was the first Indian to score multiple hundreds in a single season</h3>
<figure id="attachment_334322" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-334322" style="max-width: 100%; margin: 0;" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><amp-img class="size-full wp-image-334322" src="https://crictracker-admin-panel-08032022.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/media/attachments/Virat-Kohli-RCB.jpg" alt="Virat Kohli" width="640" height="400" layout="responsive" style="max-width: 100%; margin: 0;"></amp-img><figcaption id="caption-attachment-334322" class="wp-caption-text">Virat Kohli. (Photo: Kuntal Chakrabarty/IANS)</figcaption></figure>
In 2016, Virat Kohli was batting on another level. Irrespective of any format, Kohli was on top of his game and was constantly getting big scores. In fact, 2016 was his best year as far as T20s are concerned. Be it international or the IPL, Kohli piled on the runs like never before.
Before the 2016 season, there was a lot of talk about how Kohli doesn’t have a single IPL hundred. However, when he scored his first IPL ton in 2016, the<a href="https://www.crictracker.com/parthiv-patel-seemed-unimpressed-after-rcb-asked-fans-to-choose-one-opener-between-him-and-devdutt-padikkal/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> RCB</a> skipper scored as many as three more double tons in the same season. He just kept getting better and better in that season.
Kohli scored a staggering 973 runs in that season and averaged 81.08. He scored four tons in a single season and was batting like a dream. He could well bat anywhere and anyhow. The first person to achieve this feat of scoring multiple tons in a single season was Chris Gayle but as far as the Indians are concerned, <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/anushka-wasnt-in-the-selectors-box-virat-kohli-on-the-farokh-engineer-controversy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Kohli</a> became the first to do it.

<h3>Manish Pandey was the first Indian to score a ton </h3>
<figure id="attachment_350806" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-350806" style="max-width: 100%; margin: 0;" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><amp-img class="size-full wp-image-350806" src="https://crictracker-admin-panel-08032022.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/media/attachments/CT_362717.jpg" alt="" width="640" height="400" layout="responsive" style="max-width: 100%; margin: 0;"></amp-img><figcaption id="caption-attachment-350806" class="wp-caption-text">Manish Pandey (Photo: IANS)</figcaption></figure>
It was a bit surprising that for almost two seasons there was not one Indian batsman who scored a century. As many as six players scored tons across 2008 and 2009 and five of those came in 2008. But the drought ended when the second season nearly came to an end.
It was Manish Pandey who broke the jinx and put his name in the history books. He became the first-ever Indian player to score a hundred in the IPL. In the final group stage encounter of the 2009 season, <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/stats-manish-pandey-and-ankit-rajpoot-set-new-indian-records-in-syed-mushtaq-ali-t20-trophy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Pandey</a> was playing just his third game of the tournament and he simply grabbed all the limelight.
Pandey scored an unbeaten 114 off 73 balls as he led <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/ipl-2020-3-players-rcb-can-target-on-mike-hessons-advice-in-the-auction/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">RCB</a>’s charge with the bat. He was the reason they got to 170 batting first. No other batsman crossed the 25-run mark. He made history with that knock as he became the first Indian and also just the second uncapped batsman (at the time, after Shaun Marsh) to score an IPL hundred.

<h3>Sachin Tendulkar became the first Indian to win the Orange Cap </h3>
<figure id="attachment_121879" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-121879" style="max-width: 100%; margin: 0;" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><amp-img class="size-full wp-image-121879" src="https://crictracker-admin-panel-08032022.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/media/attachments/Sachin-Tendulkar-IPL-MI.jpg" alt="Sachin Tendulkar IPL MI" width="600" height="409" layout="responsive" style="max-width: 100%; margin: 0;"></amp-img><figcaption id="caption-attachment-121879" class="wp-caption-text">Sachin Tendulkar(Photo Source: Twitter)</figcaption></figure>
For the first couple of seasons, it was the overseas batsmen who dominated the IPL. In the first season, it was Shaun Marsh who took the tournament by storm as he scored 616 runs in 11 games while playing for the Kings XI Punjab. <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/world-cup-2019-matthew-hayden-hopes-for-another-india-australia-clash-perhaps-in-final/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Matthew Hayden</a> won the Orange Cap in the second season as he amassed 572 runs in 12 matches.
But in 2010, the tide turned and none other than the great Sachin Tendulkar broke the Indian hoodoo. He had a phenomenal season where he led the Mumbai Indians (MI) to the final for the first time in three years. He scored 618 runs at an average of 47.53. Moreover, he had a strike-rate of 132.61.
Since then, only two Indians have won the Orange Cap. In 2014, it was Robin Uthappa who had a great run as his 660 runs in the tournament helped<a href="https://www.crictracker.com/ipl-2020-3-players-kkr-shouldve-released-but-didnt/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> KKR </a>lift the title. In 2016, Virat Kohli was batting on another level. He scored a mind-boggling 973 runs and led RCB to the final of that season.

<h3>Balachandra Akhil has the best strike-rate by an Indian in an innings</h3>
<figure id="attachment_377150" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-377150" style="max-width: 100%; margin: 0;" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><amp-img class="size-full wp-image-377150" src="https://crictracker-admin-panel-08032022.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/media/attachments/Balachandra-Akhil.jpg" alt="Balachandra Akhil" width="640" height="400" layout="responsive" style="max-width: 100%; margin: 0;"></amp-img><figcaption id="caption-attachment-377150" class="wp-caption-text">Balachandra Akhil. (Photo Source: Twitter)</figcaption></figure>
There may not be a lot of people who remember or know Balachandra Akhil. He was an all-rounder from Karnataka who was around in domestic cricket for about 12-13 years. He was constantly in and out of the Karnataka side as well but managed to play 51 first-class games, 69 List ‘A’ games and 35 T20s.
In the IPL, he was a part of the Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) side for the first three years before he moved to Kochi Tuskers Kerala (KTK) in 2011. Akhil holds a record no one would expect him to. The Bangalore-born all-rounder struck a seven-ball 27 against Deccan Chargers in 2008 to lead RCB to a win while they were chasing 166.
That 27 not out off just seven balls has gone on to become the fourth-best in terms strike-rate in an innings. Chris Morris, Albie Morkel and AB de Villiers are the only ones above him when you consider innings of more than 25 runs. Thus, Akhil’s strike-rate of 385.71 is the best by an Indian in a single IPL innings.

When the Indian Premier League (IPL) first started, it was a step into the unknown. Nobody quite knew what it would turn out to be. It came on the back of India’s success in the 2007 <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/ms-dhoni-reveals-how-india-prepared-for-the-bowl-out-situation-against-pakistan-in-world-t20-2007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">World T20</a>. However, in the first couple of years, it was mainly the overseas stars dominating the tournament.
A lot of records belonged to the overseas players after the first couple of seasons. But the Indians slowly started to catch up and have broken quite a few of them as well. There are certain records that the <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/five-bowlers-who-can-trouble-indian-batsmen-in-the-world-test-championship/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Indian</a> players have broken and some of them are all-time ones as well.
Here we look at five Indian records in the history of the IPL:
<h3>Yusuf Pathan holds the record for the fastest IPL ton by an Indian</h3>
<figure id="attachment_248391" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-248391" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-248391" src="https://crictracker-admin-panel-08032022.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/media/attachments/Yusuf-Pathan.jpg" alt="Yusuf Pathan" width="640" height="400" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-248391" class="wp-caption-text">Yusuf Pathan of Sunrisers Hyderabad. (Photo by Surjeet Yadav/IANS)</figcaption></figure>
Yusuf Pathan was one of the stars for the Rajasthan Royals (RR) in their title-winning run in 2008. But he went through a slump in 2009 before storming his way back into reckoning in 2010. In the second match of the third edition of the IPL, Pathan almost pulled off a miraculous win for RR.
Thanks to fifties from <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/lets-give-mohammad-azharuddin-time-to-read-into-ambati-rayudus-corruption-claims-saad-bin-jung/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Ambati Rayudu</a> and Saurabh Tiwary, MI reached 212 in their 20 overs. In reply, RR were reduced to 66/4 in the 10th over and Pathan was already at the crease. He was batting on 14 off 11 balls and then that fall of the fourth wicket triggered and the Baroda all-rounder simply went berserk.
He got to his half-century in 21 balls as he belted the bowlers around. In no time, the hundred was up and it just took 16 deliveries for Pathan to move from 50 to 100. Thus, it became the fastest IPL ton scored by an Indian (37 balls). Almost a decade has passed and the record is still intact.

<h3>Virat Kohli was the first Indian to score multiple hundreds in a single season</h3>
<figure id="attachment_334322" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-334322" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-334322" src="https://crictracker-admin-panel-08032022.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/media/attachments/Virat-Kohli-RCB.jpg" alt="Virat Kohli" width="640" height="400" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-334322" class="wp-caption-text">Virat Kohli. (Photo: Kuntal Chakrabarty/IANS)</figcaption></figure>
In 2016, Virat Kohli was batting on another level. Irrespective of any format, Kohli was on top of his game and was constantly getting big scores. In fact, 2016 was his best year as far as T20s are concerned. Be it international or the IPL, Kohli piled on the runs like never before.
Before the 2016 season, there was a lot of talk about how Kohli doesn’t have a single IPL hundred. However, when he scored his first IPL ton in 2016, the<a href="https://www.crictracker.com/parthiv-patel-seemed-unimpressed-after-rcb-asked-fans-to-choose-one-opener-between-him-and-devdutt-padikkal/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> RCB</a> skipper scored as many as three more double tons in the same season. He just kept getting better and better in that season.
Kohli scored a staggering 973 runs in that season and averaged 81.08. He scored four tons in a single season and was batting like a dream. He could well bat anywhere and anyhow. The first person to achieve this feat of scoring multiple tons in a single season was Chris Gayle but as far as the Indians are concerned, <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/anushka-wasnt-in-the-selectors-box-virat-kohli-on-the-farokh-engineer-controversy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Kohli</a> became the first to do it.

<h3>Manish Pandey was the first Indian to score a ton </h3>
<figure id="attachment_350806" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-350806" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-350806" src="https://crictracker-admin-panel-08032022.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/media/attachments/CT_362717.jpg" alt width="640" height="400" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-350806" class="wp-caption-text">Manish Pandey (Photo: IANS)</figcaption></figure>
It was a bit surprising that for almost two seasons there was not one Indian batsman who scored a century. As many as six players scored tons across 2008 and 2009 and five of those came in 2008. But the drought ended when the second season nearly came to an end.
It was Manish Pandey who broke the jinx and put his name in the history books. He became the first-ever Indian player to score a hundred in the IPL. In the final group stage encounter of the 2009 season, <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/stats-manish-pandey-and-ankit-rajpoot-set-new-indian-records-in-syed-mushtaq-ali-t20-trophy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Pandey</a> was playing just his third game of the tournament and he simply grabbed all the limelight.
Pandey scored an unbeaten 114 off 73 balls as he led <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/ipl-2020-3-players-rcb-can-target-on-mike-hessons-advice-in-the-auction/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">RCB</a>’s charge with the bat. He was the reason they got to 170 batting first. No other batsman crossed the 25-run mark. He made history with that knock as he became the first Indian and also just the second uncapped batsman (at the time, after Shaun Marsh) to score an IPL hundred.

<h3>Sachin Tendulkar became the first Indian to win the Orange Cap </h3>
<figure id="attachment_121879" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-121879" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-121879" src="https://crictracker-admin-panel-08032022.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/media/attachments/Sachin-Tendulkar-IPL-MI.jpg" alt="Sachin Tendulkar IPL MI" width="600" height="409" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-121879" class="wp-caption-text">Sachin Tendulkar(Photo Source: Twitter)</figcaption></figure>
For the first couple of seasons, it was the overseas batsmen who dominated the IPL. In the first season, it was Shaun Marsh who took the tournament by storm as he scored 616 runs in 11 games while playing for the Kings XI Punjab. <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/world-cup-2019-matthew-hayden-hopes-for-another-india-australia-clash-perhaps-in-final/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Matthew Hayden</a> won the Orange Cap in the second season as he amassed 572 runs in 12 matches.
But in 2010, the tide turned and none other than the great Sachin Tendulkar broke the Indian hoodoo. He had a phenomenal season where he led the Mumbai Indians (MI) to the final for the first time in three years. He scored 618 runs at an average of 47.53. Moreover, he had a strike-rate of 132.61.
Since then, only two Indians have won the Orange Cap. In 2014, it was Robin Uthappa who had a great run as his 660 runs in the tournament helped<a href="https://www.crictracker.com/ipl-2020-3-players-kkr-shouldve-released-but-didnt/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> KKR </a>lift the title. In 2016, Virat Kohli was batting on another level. He scored a mind-boggling 973 runs and led RCB to the final of that season.

<h3>Balachandra Akhil has the best strike-rate by an Indian in an innings</h3>
<figure id="attachment_377150" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-377150" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-377150" src="https://crictracker-admin-panel-08032022.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/media/attachments/Balachandra-Akhil.jpg" alt="Balachandra Akhil" width="640" height="400" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-377150" class="wp-caption-text">Balachandra Akhil. (Photo Source: Twitter)</figcaption></figure>
There may not be a lot of people who remember or know Balachandra Akhil. He was an all-rounder from Karnataka who was around in domestic cricket for about 12-13 years. He was constantly in and out of the Karnataka side as well but managed to play 51 first-class games, 69 List ‘A’ games and 35 T20s.
In the IPL, he was a part of the Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) side for the first three years before he moved to Kochi Tuskers Kerala (KTK) in 2011. Akhil holds a record no one would expect him to. The Bangalore-born all-rounder struck a seven-ball 27 against Deccan Chargers in 2008 to lead RCB to a win while they were chasing 166.
That 27 not out off just seven balls has gone on to become the fourth-best in terms strike-rate in an innings. Chris Morris, Albie Morkel and AB de Villiers are the only ones above him when you consider innings of more than 25 runs. Thus, Akhil’s strike-rate of 385.71 is the best by an Indian in a single IPL innings.

A lot of records belonged to the overseas players after the first couple of seasons.

Five Indian records in IPL

Indians slowly started to catch up and have broken quite a few of them as well and have broken a few IPL records as well, RCB, MI, RR, Indian Premier League