IPL is famous the world over for its high-scoring batsmen. It’s like all other T20 leagues which have no scope for the bowlers. Only a few bowlers could make up for the high influence of batters in IPL. In fact, the high-scoring batsmen of IPL elevated their levels later to international cricket.
Kohli is the king of the highest runs in IPL in one season. He played a total of 223 IPL games and scored 6624 runs. Shikhar Dhawan and Rohit Sharma are also on the list. Below is our detailed guide on the most runs in IPL in one season.
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Chris Gayle (733) in 2012/ Mike Hussey (733) in 2013
Chris Gayle was the first batsman in the history of IPL with the most runs in the IPL season. He made this record in the year 2012 while playing for the RCB. Later Chris’s record of the IPL most runs in a season was broken within RCB in 2016 by Kohli. Chris has always been an aggressive batsman. And during the year 2012, he showed his abilities against the teams like KKR, RR, and Kings XI Punjab.
Gayle made these highest runs in the IPL season 2012 with 15 matches and a strike rate of 160.74.
Next year, Mike Hussey from the Chennai Super Kings doubled this record and made another 733 in 17 matches. He was the opening batsman of the team and was the first Australian listed among the top run scorers.
Kane Williamson (735) in 2018
After the year 2016, season 2018 had the highest runs in the IPL season. Those were scored by Kane Williamson of SRH. He scored 735 out of the 17 games he played. This was the most runs in one season of IPL during the year 2018.
He is an asset to T20 cricket. SRH cricket team used to call him the banker. Williamson showed his consistency in the game by scoring three fifties, consecutively. He was the Virat Kohli of SRH. The team went into the finals that year but lost to the Chennai Super Kings. Anyways, Kane Williamson was the IPL one-season highest run scorer that year.
David Warner (848) in 2016
Next to Virat Kohli’s highest runs in the IPL season, in 2016 was David Warner’s 848. This was the second most runs in the IPL season at that time. David made this record while he was playing for the SRH.
Before making this record, David was already the eye candy of the IPL. He is one of those batsmen with the most orange caps (2015, 2017, 2019). Chris Gayle followed Warner and won the orange cap two consecutive times.
Anyways, talking of David’s most runs in IPL history in one season, he made 848 in 17 matches of the season in 2016. With the efforts of Warner, SRH won their maiden IPL title that year. Not only this, David has made 500+ runs multiple times in IPL seasons.
Jos Buttler (863) in 2022
Recently, Jos Buttler, the English Wicketkeeper-batsman, came closer to Kohli’s record of 973. Buttler while playing as a Rajasthan Royals player made a record 863. He made these runs during the IPL 2022 and helped his team reach the finals.
His average for the season remained 57.53 with a strike rate of 149.05. Buttler, interestingly made 4 centuries and 4 fifties this year. Also, he was among the top 5 batsmen of the season in 2022 with the most sixes, as he scored 45 of them.
Virat Kohli (973) in 2016
As mentioned before, Kohli is the king of this record. He made himself no. 1 in the list of IPL high scorers in one season by making 973 out of the 16 games he played. He made this record in the IPL season in 2016. The record also included 4 centuries in a single season. Nobody ever showed an impact as great as his in IPL history before.
Then in IPL 2016, with the help of Kohli’s brilliant performance, RCB reached the finals. However, they didn’t win the trophy and were defeated by SRH.
