Top 5 batsmen to score the fastest 1000 runs in IPL

Many world-class batters got the opportunity to play in IPL. Some of them tasted huge success and popularity among the fans and some of them failed to do so. T20 cricket is all about playing with a high strike rate and scoring quick runs for the team.

Some of the batters performed so brilliantly that they scored 1000 runs in very few matches they played in IPL. Here are the top 5 batsmen who scored the fastest 1000 runs in very few IPL matches.

5. Chris Gayle - 27 innings

Chris Gayle took only 27 innings to score 1000 runs in the IPL. This veteran is considered one of the best batsmen in IPL history. He has won the Orange Cap for two consecutive years in 2011 and 2012.

If we talk about Chris Gayle's overall IPL career, he has scored a total of 4965 runs in his 142 IPL matches with an average of 39.72. During this, His strike rate was 148.96.

He also has 6 IPL centuries in his name as well as he has hit the most 357 sixes in his IPL career. This veteran has played for Kolkata Knight Riders, Royal Challengers Bangalore, and Punjab Kings in IPL.

4. Jonny Bairstow - 26 innings

Jonny Bairstow took 26 innings to score 1000 runs in IPL. He made his IPL debut in 2019 for Sunrisers Hyderabad and performed magnificently from his first match.

He is playing for Punjab Kings in IPL 2022. If we talk about his IPL career stats, then he has scored a total of 1291 runs in 39 matches with an average of 35.86, during which his strike rate has been 142.65. Jonny Bairstow has scored 9 fifties and a century in IPL so far.

3. Matthew Hayden - 25 innings

Matthew Hayden has played only for Chennai Super Kings in IPL and he took only 25 innings to score his first 1000 runs. Matthew Hayden's name is taken among those players in IPL history, who have won the Orange Cap in this league.

In the 2009 IPL, this veteran won the Orange Cap with 572 runs. If we talk about Matthew Hayden's overall IPL career, he has played a total of 32 matches, in which he has scored 1107 runs at an average of 36.9 and a strike rate of 137.52.

2. Lendl Simmons - 23 innings 

Lendl Simmons has played only for Mumbai Indians in IPL and in 29 matches he has played for his team, he scored a total of 1079 runs at an average of 39.96. He scored 11 half-centuries and one century in his IPL career.

Simmons scored 1000 runs in 23 innings. He also won IPL 2015 and 2017 with Mumbai Indians. He played a big role in the victory of the Mumbai Indians in the 2015 IPL.

1. Shaun Marsh - 21 innings

Shaun Marsh holds the record for scoring the fastest 1000 runs in IPL. Marsh took 21 innings to score the fastest 1000 runs in IPL. He played a total of 71 matches in his career, in which he has scored a total of 2477 runs with an impressive average of 39.95.

He has scored 20 half-centuries and one century in his IPL career. Shaun Marsh also won the orange cap in the first season of IPL, he played a total of 11 matches in IPL 2008, in which he scored a total of 616 runs at an average of 68.44.