List of major records broken during IPL 2023

IPL 2023 saw CSK defeating GT in the final to win their fifth title.

The 16th season of the Indian Premier League (IPL) was nothing short of an emotional roller coaster, with Rinku Singh experiencing the highest of highs and Prithvi Shaw and Riyan Parag experiencing the lowest of lows.

Two months of outstanding cricket culminated in Chennai Super Kings winning their fifth IPL championship by defeating Gujarat Titans by five wickets (DLS method) on the final night.

Chasing 171 runs in 15 overs, Devon Conway led the charge with 47 runs, while cameos from Ruturaj Gaikwad (26), Ajinkya Rahane (27 in 13 balls), and Ambati Rayudu (19 off 8 balls) kept them in the game. Shivam Dube with 32* and Ravindra Jadeja hit a six and a four off the last two balls of the 15th over when 10 runs were needed to win the final and the title for Chennai Super Kings.

Earlier, thanks to a half-century from Wriddhiman Saha and a knock of 96 runs from Sai Sudharsan, Gujarat had posted 214/4, the highest total in the IPL final.

Check out all the records broken and made in the IPL 2023 edition

The season also broke multiple records of the past. Be it the most number of centuries, the fifties, or even the most number of 200+ run chases, the 2023 version of the cash-rich league saw almost everything. It wasn’t really bowler’s friendly but nevertheless, the fans enjoyed the grandest extravaganza of cricket. 

1. Highest avg first inns total in an IPL season

• 183 – 2023
• 172 – 2018
• 171 – 2022

2. Most 200-plus totals in an IPL season

• 37 – 2023
• 18 – 2022
• 15 - 2018

3. Successful chases of 200 or more

• 8 – 2023
• 3 – 2014
• 2 - 2010, 2018, 2022
• 1 - 2008, 2012, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021

4. Most 50-plus scores in a season

• 153 – 2023
• 118 – 2022
• 117 - 2016

5. Most hundreds in a season

• 12 – 2023
• 8 – 2022
• 7 - 2016

6. Highest run rates in an IPL season

• 8.99 – 2023
• 8.65 – 2018
• 8.54 - 2022

7. Most sixes in an IPL season

• 1124- 2023
• 1062- 2022
• 872- 2018
• 794- 2019
• 734-2020

8. Most sixes by a player in IPL 2023

• Faf du Plessis- 36
• Shivam Dube- 35
• Shubman Gill- 33

9. The qualifier 2 at Ahmedabad on May 26, 2023, has witnessed a total of 400-plus (404 for 13) - 233 for three by Gujarat Titans and 171 by Mumbai. The said aggregate is the third highest in the playoffs in the IPL - the highest being 428 for 13 between Punjab Kings (226/6) and Chennai Super Kings (202 for seven) at Wankhede Stadium on May 30, 2014.

There were some individual records broken as well with Yashasvi Jaiswal hitting the fastest half-century in IPL history in 13 balls. His 625 runs in 14 matches are also the highest-ever in IPL by an uncapped batter.

Rinku Singh became the first batter in the IPL to hit five consecutive sixes in an over, which came for KKR against GT on the bowling of Yash Dayal. Notably, no other cricketer in IPL history chased 29 runs in the last five deliveries but Rinku did the unthinkable.

Shubman Gill hit 890 runs in the recently concluded season, which is the second-highest by any cricketer, and with that, he also became the third and youngest cricketer to score 800+ runs in a season.

In another first, three GT bowlers, Mohammed Shami, Rashid Khan, and Mohit Sharma finished in the top three of the IPL Purple Cap race.