IPL 2021: Top 5 contenders to break the record of the longest six

Andre Russell (Kolkata Knight Riders)

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 lack of form, 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.