It is just time for everyone to brace up for another season of the most beloved and cherished T20 league across the world: the Indian Premier League (<a href="https://www.crictracker.com/t20/ipl-indian-premier-league/?page=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">IPL</a>). After the previous edition being shifted to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) owing to the COVID-19 situation in India, the tournament’s 14th edition, scheduled to start from 9th April 2021, is to be played in India in its entirety.

Ever since the advent of 20-overs cricket, the frequency of hitting the big ones has gone up dramatically. Unlike other formats, the severe paucity of time in the shorter version of the game has made six-hitting ability an essential attribute in every players’ armory. While all that a six needs is dispatching the ball over the boundary rope, there is no denying that the longer the hit, the greater the fun.

Over the years, IPL has been a witness to the greatest of assaults, cruelest of batting exhibitions, and the longest of sixes. And with the kind of players who have been a part of the tournament thus far, it would not have taken an extraordinary mind to guess that this was meant to happen. The <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/longest-sixes-in-ipl-history/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">record for the longest hit</a> has been undisputed ever since the inaugural edition of the league when Albie Morkel smoked Pragyan Ojha over long-on for a gigantic 125 meters. Much like every season, some old records will be broken, some new ones will be made this time.

5 players who may break the record of the longest sixes in IPL 2021

Chris Gayle (Punjab Kings)

<img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-459527" src="https://crictracker-admin-panel-08032022.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/media/attachments/Chris-Gayle-4.jpg" alt="Chris Gayle" width="640" height="400" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-459527" class="wp-caption-text">Chris Gayle of PBKS (Photo Source: IPL/BCCI)</figcaption>

If there is one way to define <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/chris-gayle-reveales-the-first-three-names-that-he-would-pick-in-his-t20-xi/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Christopher Henry Gayle </a>other than his self-acclaimed title of the Universe Boss, it will be “The Sixer King”. How else does one refer to a person with numbers like these: third-most sixes in the Test history (98), second-most in ODIs (331), fifth-most in T20Is (106), the most in the IPL (349), and the most in Twenty20 cricket – wait for it – 1009.

Placed at number two in the list of most sixes in T20s is Kieron Pollard with 713 maximums: a difference of a whopping 296, which is a testimony of the dominance of Gayle when it comes to the six-hitting business. Having wreaked incalculable assaults over all his years in cricket, Gayle has been entertainment personified.

Gayle, who has hit the most number of sixes in overs 1-11, and 13 in the IPL history (full list <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CMl39k1sZLg/?igshid=sukovo2rj9qg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>), recorded his longest hit in form of a 119-meter strike in IPL 2013. Given his outrageous power and hitting prowess, Gayle is a contender to eclipse Morkel’s record seven days out seven in a week.

<img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-454472" src="https://crictracker-admin-panel-08032022.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/media/attachments/MS-Dhoni-4.jpg" alt="MS Dhoni" width="640" height="400" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-454472" class="wp-caption-text">MS Dhoni of CSK (Photo Source: IPL/BCCI)</figcaption>

Speak of the devil, the devil is here. Speak of sixes, <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/ms-dhoni-meets-his-younger-self-in-an-emotional-video/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dhoni</a>’s here. Having entertained the masses with his ruthless hitting ever since he was the long-haired bludgeoner, there is no one to stop him once he gets into his zone even today. With a robust physique and an immensely powerful bottom-hand, hitting sixes has never been tall ask for MSD, who has slammed 216 sixes in his 204-match IPL career.

From the helicopter shot to his trademark stand-and-deliver strikes, he has a repertoire of his own when it comes to sending the ball out of the park, and no wonder, he has smashed the most iconic, most remarkable hits in the game. Who can, after all, forget the towering hit against Nuwan Kulasekara on that night in Mumbai?

Arguably one of the finest finishers in the sport of cricket, Dhoni has scored more runs in the IPL while batting at number 5 than anyone else (1928). He has slammed 34 and 49 sixes in the IPL in over number 18 and 20, respectively: the most for any batsman in the history of the league. MSD’s longest hit – a 115-meter six – in the IPL came in 2009. If he could connect one from the sweet spot, there is no distance that he cannot send the ball travelling.

<img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-133025" src="https://crictracker-admin-panel-08032022.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/media/attachments/Kieron-Pollard.jpg" alt="Kieron Pollard" width="600" height="400" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-133025" class="wp-caption-text">Kieron Pollard of MI (Photo Source: Twitter)</figcaption>

Having played a whopping 534 T20 games in a career that started in 2005 and is still going strong, the bulky Caribbean star, Pollard, has smashed 713 sixes. He is one of the only three batsmen in the world who have run in excess of 10,000 in the shortest format, and with an experience worth 164 IPL games, he is one of the most regular faces of the league.

Pollard has the record of hitting the most sixes in over number 14, 15, and 17 in the IPL, and over the years, he finished numerous games for his team single-handedly. Only two short of reaching the landmark of 200 sixes in the IPL, he stands 6th on the list of most sixes in the tournament.

Pollard rammed into an elite club of hitting <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/west-indies-vs-sri-lanka-kieron-pollard-smacks-six-sixes-in-an-over-against-akila-dananjaya-in-the-first-t20i/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">six sixes</a> in over recently when he belted Akila Dhananjaya for 36 runs in the home series against Sri Lanka. Given his ruthless ability and sheer power, sending the ball for 125 meters is certainly not an impossible task.

AB de Villiers (Royal Challengers Bangalore)

<img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-447753" src="https://crictracker-admin-panel-08032022.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/media/attachments/AB-de-Villiers-1.jpg" alt="AB de Villiers" width="640" height="400" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-447753" class="wp-caption-text">AB de Villiers. (Photo Source: IPL/BCCI)</figcaption>

It will be foolish to look beyond <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/ipl-2021-mike-hesson-confirms-ab-de-villiers-as-rcbs-first-choice-wicketkeeper/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">AB de Villiers</a> when in search of candidates to send the ball the longest distance. The epitome of adaptability and innovation, there is no stroke that is missing in de Villiers’ book.

The destructive South African batsman has pulped the mightiest of bowlers in his IPL career and with an extraordinary ability to hit 360-degree, he is certainly one of the toughest batsmen to operate against for any bowler.

De Villiers stands second only to Gayle in the number of most sixes in the IPL, with 235 maximums to his credit from 169 games. The longest he has dispatched one in his IPL career is 111 meters, which came in the 2018 edition. However, for a man of de Villiers’ power, no distance seems beyond reach.

<img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-330024" src="https://crictracker-admin-panel-08032022.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/media/attachments/Andre-Russell.jpg" alt="Andre Russell" width="640" height="400" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-330024" class="wp-caption-text">Andre Russell of KKR(Photo: IANS)</figcaption>

The brawny Jamaican all-rounder, Andre Russell is one of the hardest hitters of the cricket ball in the world. While he has not been at his very best in the recent past owing to injuries and <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/i-changed-my-stance-i-changed-my-technique-but-nothing-went-my-way-andre-russell-on-failures-in-ipl-2020/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lack of form</a>, there is no question on the butchery Russell can do.

Having represented 16 different franchises across different short-format tournaments, he has been one demolisher of a batsman who has rampaged bowlers all across the world with a bizarre career strike rate of 169.88 in 348 T20s for 5873 runs and 460 sixes, of which 129 have come from 61 IPL innings.

Even though Russell does not rank as high in the six-hitting charts of the IPL, he is one of the very few to have hit more sixes than fours (105) in the tournament. The Caribbean is renowned as Muscle-Russell for the kind of power he generates, and with the kind of love for smoking the big ones he has, the record of the longest six is just one crunch hit away.

It is just time for everyone to brace up for another season of the most beloved and cherished T20 league across the world: the Indian Premier League (<a href="https://www.crictracker.com/t20/ipl-indian-premier-league/?page=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">IPL</a>). After the previous edition being shifted to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) owing to the COVID-19 situation in India, the tournament’s 14th edition, scheduled to start from 9th April 2021, is to be played in India in its entirety.
Ever since the advent of 20-overs cricket, the frequency of hitting the big ones has gone up dramatically. Unlike other formats, the severe paucity of time in the shorter version of the game has made six-hitting ability an essential attribute in every players’ armory. While all that a six needs is dispatching the ball over the boundary rope, there is no denying that the longer the hit, the greater the fun.
Over the years, IPL has been a witness to the greatest of assaults, cruelest of batting exhibitions, and the longest of sixes. And with the kind of players who have been a part of the tournament thus far, it would not have taken an extraordinary mind to guess that this was meant to happen. The <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/longest-sixes-in-ipl-history/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">record for the longest hit</a> has been undisputed ever since the inaugural edition of the league when Albie Morkel smoked Pragyan Ojha over long-on for a gigantic 125 meters. Much like every season, some old records will be broken, some new ones will be made this time.
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<h2>5 players who may break the record of the longest sixes in IPL 2021</h2>
<h3>Chris Gayle (Punjab Kings)</h3>
<figure id="attachment_459527" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-459527" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="max-width: 100%; margin: 0;"><amp-img class="size-full wp-image-459527" src="https://crictracker-admin-panel-08032022.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/media/attachments/Chris-Gayle-4.jpg" alt="Chris Gayle" width="640" height="400" layout="responsive" style="max-width: 100%; margin: 0;"></amp-img><figcaption id="caption-attachment-459527" class="wp-caption-text">Chris Gayle of PBKS (Photo Source: IPL/BCCI)</figcaption></figure>
If there is one way to define <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/chris-gayle-reveales-the-first-three-names-that-he-would-pick-in-his-t20-xi/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Christopher Henry Gayle </a>other than his self-acclaimed title of the Universe Boss, it will be “The Sixer King”. How else does one refer to a person with numbers like these: third-most sixes in the Test history (98), second-most in ODIs (331), fifth-most in T20Is (106), the most in the IPL (349), and the most in Twenty20 cricket – wait for it – 1009.
Placed at number two in the list of most sixes in T20s is Kieron Pollard with 713 maximums: a difference of a whopping 296, which is a testimony of the dominance of Gayle when it comes to the six-hitting business. Having wreaked incalculable assaults over all his years in cricket, Gayle has been entertainment personified.
Gayle, who has hit the most number of sixes in overs 1-11, and 13 in the IPL history (full list <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CMl39k1sZLg/?igshid=sukovo2rj9qg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>), recorded his longest hit in form of a 119-meter strike in IPL 2013. Given his outrageous power and hitting prowess, Gayle is a contender to eclipse Morkel’s record seven days out seven in a week.

<h3>MS Dhoni (Chennai Super Kings)</h3>
<figure id="attachment_454472" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-454472" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="max-width: 100%; margin: 0;"><amp-img class="size-full wp-image-454472" src="https://crictracker-admin-panel-08032022.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/media/attachments/MS-Dhoni-4.jpg" alt="MS Dhoni" width="640" height="400" layout="responsive" style="max-width: 100%; margin: 0;"></amp-img><figcaption id="caption-attachment-454472" class="wp-caption-text">MS Dhoni of CSK (Photo Source: IPL/BCCI)</figcaption></figure>
Speak of the devil, the devil is here. Speak of sixes, <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/ms-dhoni-meets-his-younger-self-in-an-emotional-video/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dhoni</a>’s here. Having entertained the masses with his ruthless hitting ever since he was the long-haired bludgeoner, there is no one to stop him once he gets into his zone even today. With a robust physique and an immensely powerful bottom-hand, hitting sixes has never been tall ask for MSD, who has slammed 216 sixes in his 204-match IPL career.
From the helicopter shot to his trademark stand-and-deliver strikes, he has a repertoire of his own when it comes to sending the ball out of the park, and no wonder, he has smashed the most iconic, most remarkable hits in the game. Who can, after all, forget the towering hit against Nuwan Kulasekara on&nbsp;that&nbsp;night in Mumbai?
Arguably one of the finest finishers in the sport of cricket, Dhoni has scored more runs in the IPL while batting at number 5 than anyone else (1928). He has slammed 34 and 49 sixes in the IPL in over number 18 and 20, respectively: the most for any batsman in the history of the league. MSD’s longest hit – a 115-meter six – in the IPL came in 2009. If he could connect one from the sweet spot, there is no distance that he cannot send the ball travelling.

<h3>Kieron Pollard (Mumbai Indians)</h3>
<figure id="attachment_133025" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-133025" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="max-width: 100%; margin: 0;"><amp-img class="size-full wp-image-133025" src="https://crictracker-admin-panel-08032022.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/media/attachments/Kieron-Pollard.jpg" alt="Kieron Pollard" width="600" height="400" layout="responsive" style="max-width: 100%; margin: 0;"></amp-img><figcaption id="caption-attachment-133025" class="wp-caption-text">Kieron Pollard of MI (Photo Source: Twitter)</figcaption></figure>
Having played a whopping 534 T20 games in a career that started in 2005 and is still going strong, the bulky Caribbean star, Pollard, has smashed 713 sixes. He is one of the only three batsmen in the world who have run in excess of 10,000 in the shortest format, and with an experience worth 164 IPL games, he is one of the most regular faces of the league.
Pollard has the record of hitting the most sixes in over number 14, 15, and 17 in the IPL, and over the years, he finished numerous games for his team single-handedly. Only two short of reaching the landmark of 200 sixes in the IPL, he stands 6th on the list of most sixes in the tournament.
Pollard rammed into an elite club of hitting <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/west-indies-vs-sri-lanka-kieron-pollard-smacks-six-sixes-in-an-over-against-akila-dananjaya-in-the-first-t20i/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">six sixes</a> in over recently when he belted Akila Dhananjaya for 36 runs in the home series against Sri Lanka. Given his ruthless ability and sheer power, sending the ball for 125 meters is certainly not an impossible task.

<h3>AB de Villiers (Royal Challengers Bangalore)</h3>
<figure id="attachment_447753" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-447753" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="max-width: 100%; margin: 0;"><amp-img class="size-full wp-image-447753" src="https://crictracker-admin-panel-08032022.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/media/attachments/AB-de-Villiers-1.jpg" alt="AB de Villiers" width="640" height="400" layout="responsive" style="max-width: 100%; margin: 0;"></amp-img><figcaption id="caption-attachment-447753" class="wp-caption-text">AB de Villiers. (Photo Source: IPL/BCCI)</figcaption></figure>
It will be foolish to look beyond <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/ipl-2021-mike-hesson-confirms-ab-de-villiers-as-rcbs-first-choice-wicketkeeper/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">AB de Villiers</a> when in search of candidates to send the ball the longest distance. The epitome of adaptability and innovation, there is no stroke that is missing in de Villiers’ book.
The destructive South African batsman has pulped the mightiest of bowlers in his IPL career and with an extraordinary ability to hit 360-degree, he is certainly one of the toughest batsmen to operate against for any bowler.
De Villiers stands second only to Gayle in the number of most sixes in the IPL, with 235 maximums to his credit from 169 games. The longest he has dispatched one in his IPL career is 111 meters, which came in the 2018 edition. However, for a man of de Villiers’ power, no distance seems beyond reach.

<h3>Andre Russell (Kolkata Knight Riders)</h3>
<figure id="attachment_330024" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-330024" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="max-width: 100%; margin: 0;"><amp-img class="size-full wp-image-330024" src="https://crictracker-admin-panel-08032022.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/media/attachments/Andre-Russell.jpg" alt="Andre Russell" width="640" height="400" layout="responsive" style="max-width: 100%; margin: 0;"></amp-img><figcaption id="caption-attachment-330024" class="wp-caption-text">Andre Russell of KKR(Photo: IANS)</figcaption></figure>
The brawny Jamaican all-rounder, Andre Russell is one of the hardest hitters of the cricket ball in the world. While he has not been at his very best in the recent past owing to injuries and <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/i-changed-my-stance-i-changed-my-technique-but-nothing-went-my-way-andre-russell-on-failures-in-ipl-2020/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lack of form</a>, there is no question on the butchery Russell can do.
Having represented 16 different franchises across different short-format tournaments, he has been one demolisher of a batsman who has rampaged bowlers all across the world with a bizarre career strike rate of 169.88 in 348 T20s for 5873 runs and 460 sixes, of which 129 have come from 61 IPL innings.
Even though Russell does not rank as high in the six-hitting charts of the IPL, he is one of the very few to have hit more sixes than fours (105) in the tournament. The Caribbean is renowned as Muscle-Russell for the kind of power he generates, and with the kind of love for smoking the big ones he has, the record of the longest six is just one crunch hit away.

It is just time for everyone to brace up for another season of the most beloved and cherished T20 league across the world: the Indian Premier League (<a href="https://www.crictracker.com/t20/ipl-indian-premier-league/?page=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">IPL</a>). After the previous edition being shifted to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) owing to the COVID-19 situation in India, the tournament’s 14th edition, scheduled to start from 9th April 2021, is to be played in India in its entirety.
Ever since the advent of 20-overs cricket, the frequency of hitting the big ones has gone up dramatically. Unlike other formats, the severe paucity of time in the shorter version of the game has made six-hitting ability an essential attribute in every players’ armory. While all that a six needs is dispatching the ball over the boundary rope, there is no denying that the longer the hit, the greater the fun.
Over the years, IPL has been a witness to the greatest of assaults, cruelest of batting exhibitions, and the longest of sixes. And with the kind of players who have been a part of the tournament thus far, it would not have taken an extraordinary mind to guess that this was meant to happen. The <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/longest-sixes-in-ipl-history/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">record for the longest hit</a> has been undisputed ever since the inaugural edition of the league when Albie Morkel smoked Pragyan Ojha over long-on for a gigantic 125 meters. Much like every season, some old records will be broken, some new ones will be made this time.
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<h2>5 players who may break the record of the longest sixes in IPL 2021</h2>
<h3>Chris Gayle (Punjab Kings)</h3>
<figure id="attachment_459527" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-459527" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-459527" src="https://crictracker-admin-panel-08032022.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/media/attachments/Chris-Gayle-4.jpg" alt="Chris Gayle" width="640" height="400" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-459527" class="wp-caption-text">Chris Gayle of PBKS (Photo Source: IPL/BCCI)</figcaption></figure>
If there is one way to define <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/chris-gayle-reveales-the-first-three-names-that-he-would-pick-in-his-t20-xi/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Christopher Henry Gayle </a>other than his self-acclaimed title of the Universe Boss, it will be “The Sixer King”. How else does one refer to a person with numbers like these: third-most sixes in the Test history (98), second-most in ODIs (331), fifth-most in T20Is (106), the most in the IPL (349), and the most in Twenty20 cricket – wait for it – 1009.
Placed at number two in the list of most sixes in T20s is Kieron Pollard with 713 maximums: a difference of a whopping 296, which is a testimony of the dominance of Gayle when it comes to the six-hitting business. Having wreaked incalculable assaults over all his years in cricket, Gayle has been entertainment personified.
Gayle, who has hit the most number of sixes in overs 1-11, and 13 in the IPL history (full list <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CMl39k1sZLg/?igshid=sukovo2rj9qg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>), recorded his longest hit in form of a 119-meter strike in IPL 2013. Given his outrageous power and hitting prowess, Gayle is a contender to eclipse Morkel’s record seven days out seven in a week.

<h3>MS Dhoni (Chennai Super Kings)</h3>
<figure id="attachment_454472" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-454472" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-454472" src="https://crictracker-admin-panel-08032022.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/media/attachments/MS-Dhoni-4.jpg" alt="MS Dhoni" width="640" height="400" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-454472" class="wp-caption-text">MS Dhoni of CSK (Photo Source: IPL/BCCI)</figcaption></figure>
Speak of the devil, the devil is here. Speak of sixes, <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/ms-dhoni-meets-his-younger-self-in-an-emotional-video/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dhoni</a>’s here. Having entertained the masses with his ruthless hitting ever since he was the long-haired bludgeoner, there is no one to stop him once he gets into his zone even today. With a robust physique and an immensely powerful bottom-hand, hitting sixes has never been tall ask for MSD, who has slammed 216 sixes in his 204-match IPL career.
From the helicopter shot to his trademark stand-and-deliver strikes, he has a repertoire of his own when it comes to sending the ball out of the park, and no wonder, he has smashed the most iconic, most remarkable hits in the game. Who can, after all, forget the towering hit against Nuwan Kulasekara on that night in Mumbai?
Arguably one of the finest finishers in the sport of cricket, Dhoni has scored more runs in the IPL while batting at number 5 than anyone else (1928). He has slammed 34 and 49 sixes in the IPL in over number 18 and 20, respectively: the most for any batsman in the history of the league. MSD’s longest hit – a 115-meter six – in the IPL came in 2009. If he could connect one from the sweet spot, there is no distance that he cannot send the ball travelling.

<h3>Kieron Pollard (Mumbai Indians)</h3>
<figure id="attachment_133025" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-133025" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-133025" src="https://crictracker-admin-panel-08032022.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/media/attachments/Kieron-Pollard.jpg" alt="Kieron Pollard" width="600" height="400" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-133025" class="wp-caption-text">Kieron Pollard of MI (Photo Source: Twitter)</figcaption></figure>
Having played a whopping 534 T20 games in a career that started in 2005 and is still going strong, the bulky Caribbean star, Pollard, has smashed 713 sixes. He is one of the only three batsmen in the world who have run in excess of 10,000 in the shortest format, and with an experience worth 164 IPL games, he is one of the most regular faces of the league.
Pollard has the record of hitting the most sixes in over number 14, 15, and 17 in the IPL, and over the years, he finished numerous games for his team single-handedly. Only two short of reaching the landmark of 200 sixes in the IPL, he stands 6th on the list of most sixes in the tournament.
Pollard rammed into an elite club of hitting <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/west-indies-vs-sri-lanka-kieron-pollard-smacks-six-sixes-in-an-over-against-akila-dananjaya-in-the-first-t20i/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">six sixes</a> in over recently when he belted Akila Dhananjaya for 36 runs in the home series against Sri Lanka. Given his ruthless ability and sheer power, sending the ball for 125 meters is certainly not an impossible task.

<h3>AB de Villiers (Royal Challengers Bangalore)</h3>
<figure id="attachment_447753" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-447753" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-447753" src="https://crictracker-admin-panel-08032022.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/media/attachments/AB-de-Villiers-1.jpg" alt="AB de Villiers" width="640" height="400" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-447753" class="wp-caption-text">AB de Villiers. (Photo Source: IPL/BCCI)</figcaption></figure>
It will be foolish to look beyond <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/ipl-2021-mike-hesson-confirms-ab-de-villiers-as-rcbs-first-choice-wicketkeeper/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">AB de Villiers</a> when in search of candidates to send the ball the longest distance. The epitome of adaptability and innovation, there is no stroke that is missing in de Villiers’ book.
The destructive South African batsman has pulped the mightiest of bowlers in his IPL career and with an extraordinary ability to hit 360-degree, he is certainly one of the toughest batsmen to operate against for any bowler.
De Villiers stands second only to Gayle in the number of most sixes in the IPL, with 235 maximums to his credit from 169 games. The longest he has dispatched one in his IPL career is 111 meters, which came in the 2018 edition. However, for a man of de Villiers’ power, no distance seems beyond reach.

<h3>Andre Russell (Kolkata Knight Riders)</h3>
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The brawny Jamaican all-rounder, Andre Russell is one of the hardest hitters of the cricket ball in the world. While he has not been at his very best in the recent past owing to injuries and <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/i-changed-my-stance-i-changed-my-technique-but-nothing-went-my-way-andre-russell-on-failures-in-ipl-2020/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lack of form</a>, there is no question on the butchery Russell can do.
Having represented 16 different franchises across different short-format tournaments, he has been one demolisher of a batsman who has rampaged bowlers all across the world with a bizarre career strike rate of 169.88 in 348 T20s for 5873 runs and 460 sixes, of which 129 have come from 61 IPL innings.
Even though Russell does not rank as high in the six-hitting charts of the IPL, he is one of the very few to have hit more sixes than fours (105) in the tournament. The Caribbean is renowned as Muscle-Russell for the kind of power he generates, and with the kind of love for smoking the big ones he has, the record of the longest six is just one crunch hit away.

The record for the longest hit has been undisputed ever since the inaugural edition of the league when Albie Morkel smoked Pragyan Ojha over long-on for a gigantic 125 meters.

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