News IPL
Virat Kohli IPL RCB 21 May 2023
IPL

IPL records set to be broken

Ahead of the 17th edition of the IPL, InsideSport looks at the records that could be broken this season.

Individual records

  • Virat Kohli (Royal Challengers Bangalore) could increase his record for the most career runs (current record: 7,263) and he could also become the first player to score 7,500 runs.
  • Kohli could increase his record for the most centuries scored (current record: seven).
  • Kohli could break Suresh Raina’s record for the most career catches (109), since Kohli’s career catches are currently 106; this record could also be passed by Rohit Sharma (Mumbai Indians, 98 career catches) or Ravindra Jadeja (Chennai Super Kings, 97 career catches).
  • Yuzvendra Chahal (Rajasthan Royals) could increase his record for the most career wickets (current record: 187), but this record could also be passed by Piyush Chawla (Mumbai Indians, 179 wickets), Amit Mishra (Lucknow Super Giants, 173 wickets) or Ravichandran Ashwin (Rajasthan Royals, 171 wickets); Chahal could also become the first player to bag 200 wickets in IPL.
  • MS Dhoni (Chennai Super Kings) could increase his record for the most career dismissals (wicketkeeping, current record: 180), but his record could also be equaled or passed by Dinesh Karthik (Royal Challengers Bangalore); Dhoni and Karthik are also first and second, respectively, when it comes to the most career catches (Dhoni: 138, Karthik: 133) and the most career stumpings (Dhoni: 42, Karthik: 36), so these records could also be potentially extended/broken.
  • Two players from the Sunrisers Hyderabad have a chance to make history by becoming the first player to take three five-wicket hauls in the IPL since both of them have managed to do so on two occasions and they could do so again this year: Jaydev Unadkat (2013 & 2017) or Bhuvneshwar Kumar (2017 & 2023); Kumar would also become the first player to do so in two consecutive years if he managed to take five-wicket haul in 2024
  • Shikhar Dhawan (Punjab Kings) could become only second player to score 7,000 runs in IPL – he is currently second in the most runs list with 6,617.
  • David Warner (Delhi Capitals) could become the first overseas player to score 6,500 runs in IPL – he currently has 6,397 runs.

Team records

Chennai Super Kings

  • CSK could break their tie with the Mumbai Indians and become the sole holder of the record for the most titles won (they have won five times – 2010, 2011, 2018, 2021, 2023).
  • If CSK win the title, it would make it a first time in history that a team wins two years in a row on two separate occasions – they first won consecutively in 2010 and 2011, and they also won the title last year.
  • CSK could extend their record for the most second-place finishes (they have ended up in second place five times – 2008, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2019).
  • CSK could extend their record for the most first, second and third place finish (they finished first, second or third record-breaking 11 times, with the Mumbai Indians in second place with eight first, second or third placements).

Mumbai Indians

  • Mumbai could break their tie with CSK and become the sole holder of the record for the most titles won (they have won five times – 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2020).
  • Mumbai could extend their record of the most matches played (current record: 247), as well as the most matches won (current record: 138), depending on how far they get this season.

Delhi Capitals

  • The Capitals could extend their record for the most third-place finishes (they have ended up in second place four times – 2009, 2012, 2019, 2021).
  • The Capitals could extend their record for the most overall matches lost (127), depending on how they do this season.

Punjab Kings

  • DC’s record for the most overall matches lost (127) could be passed by PK, who are not far behind with 124 lost matches.

Rajasthan Royals

  • The Royals could break CSK’s record for the most years in between a team’s first and last title victory (the current record is 13 years span since CSK first won in 2010 and the last time 2023) – the Royals first won in 2008, so a win in 2024 would make it 16 years between their first and last title victory.

Newsletter

SA Cricket Mag

Get the latest cricket news delivered to your inbox every morning.