IPL 2020: Top 5 batsmen with highest average in the tournament's history

The Indian Premier League, since its start in the year 2008 has seen many great batsmen be a part of the league and showcase their talents of playing against the best bowlers from across the world, toying with them and hitting the most difficult deliveries into the stands for sixes with ease. But one thing that remains uncommon is the ability to execute this task with consistency. Some batsmen come, hit runs in one edition and then are left out because of not being able to deliver consistently. The names featured in this list though, have been one of the most consistent players in both international and IPL cricket, and have built such a reputation that the opposite team has to devise a special strategy for them. So, here’s a look at the top 5 players with the highest average in Indian Premier League (IPL): (While formulating this list, only the batsmen who had played over a 100 innings were considered) 1. David Warner David Warner. (Photo: IANS) The Sunrisers Hyderabad opener has fared well year after year in the Indian Premier League and has proven his excellent abilities with the bat in hand. And, owing to his ability to score heaps of runs against the toughest bowling attacks of the league, he is placed at the top of this list, with a run-scoring average of 43.17. Warner has played in a total of 126 matches and has a total of 4706 runs to his name, one of the highest of all time, including 4 centuries and a staggering number of 44 half-centuries. His strike rate is also really high, currently resting at 142.39. This season, Warner will be wanting to better his numbers and would want to lead his team with the bat to their second IPL victory, after having led them to the pole position in the 2016 season as the captain of the team. 2. MS Dhoni MS Dhoni of Chennai Super Kings in action. (Photo by Surjeet Yadav/IANS) The second most successful IPL captain and the most capable finishers, ever to have played in the tournament, MS Dhoni, makes his way into this list at the second spot, with an average of 42.20 with the bat in hand. MS all through these years has led his team by example. Be it with his abilities as a captain or a batsman who is capable to tearing the opposition’s bowling attack apart, year after year he has proven that even though he may see his share of bad days, but in the end, it will be him and his team that would emerge as the victors. He has tried to be present for his franchise at all times and has played 190 matches for them, in which he has scored a total of 4432 runs, hitting 23 half-centuries in the process, and making sure that his team gets past the finish line successfully more often than not. 3. Chris Gayle Chris Gayle. (Photo: IANS) The ‘Universe Boss’ has been the uncrowned king of T20 cricket, Chris Gayle, since the day he started playing this format of the sport and has become a name, that sends chills down the spines of any bowler who is asked to bowl to him when he is in form with the mammoth bat of his. While making sure that no loose ball goes unpunished, he has made sure that he maintains a decent average too. His current average stands at 41.13, which places him at the third position in this line-up of batting greats of the Indian Premier League. Gayle has played for multiple franchises during his IPL career and has featured in a total of 125 matches where he has managed to get under his belt, a total 4484 runs, which include his 6 centuries, 28 half-centuries and the 695 sixes and fours that he has hit. 4. AB de Villiers AB de Villiers. (Photo: IANS) Entering this list at the 4th spot, bettering his current IPL captain, is ‘Mr. 360’, AB de Villiers, with an average of 39.95. Known for his ability to carve out a shot for any possible delivery a bowler can bowl, AB has been a really valuable asset for his current franchise the Royal Challengers Bangalore, ever since he left Delhi Daredevils and joined them. Every bowler bowling to him has to make the best use of his cricketing brain, in order to bowl a delivery, which cannot be hit into the stands, using one of the shots listed in the de Villiers’ book of batting. Having played a total of 154 matches in the Indian Premier League, he is now the veterans of the tournament. In these matches, he has managed to score 33 half-centuries and 3 centuries, which add up in his tally of the 4395 runs that he has to his name. 5. Virat Kohli Virat Kohli. (Photo: Kuntal Chakrabarty/IANS) Virat Kohli, the man who would be coming into this IPL, having worked out the best strategies to get his team to a tournament win, is placed at the fifth spot in this list of players with the highest average in the Indian Premier League. It may be surprising to many that, but a team that has had batsmen of Virat Kohli’s calibre has not won an IPL title even once in over a decade of the tournament’s existence. Kohli each year manages to get a mountain of runs to his name, but something fails to click and his team remains deprived of the title. Since the start of the tournament in 2008, Virat has played a total of 177 IPL matches, all for the same franchise, the Royal Challengers Bangalore. He has scored a total of 5412 runs at an average of 37.84 and stands to be one of the highest run-getters in the history of the tournament.

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IPL 2020: Top 5 batsmen with highest average in the tournament's history

The names featured in this list have been one of the most consistent players in both international and IPL cricket.

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