IPL: Top 6 batsmen with most fifties in less than 25 balls
These players have been exceptional for whichever team they have played over the years.
3. Virender Sehwag – 6
A batsman who played ODIs and Tests also as though he was playing T20, the legendary Virender Sehwag thoroughly entertained his fans throughout his career. T20 was the perfect format for him to unleash from the first ball without drawing in any form of criticism of throwing his wicket away.
While he didn’t end up playing too many IPL seasons and retired in 2015, he did feature in 104 games scoring 2728 runs at a phenomenal strike-rate of 156. He ended up scoring 2 tons and 16 fifties out of which remarkably 6 came in less than 25 balls, displaying Viru’s calibre.
Sehwag’s most swashbuckling innings came when it mattered the most. In Qualifier 2 in 2014, against a formidable Chennai Super Kings, Sehwag rolled back the years as he played his trademark drives and lofts and reached his half century in just 21 balls, his fastest in the IPL. He ended up converting that 50 into a mammoth 122 and helped his team to make it to the final, in what turned out to be one of the best ever innings of the IPL.
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