The Bangladesh Premier Competition (BPL) is a major Twenty20 cricket league featuring a total of seven teams. The Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) is one of three professional cricket championships in Bangladesh. It is the world’s 16th most-watched premier division. In the winter league, each team plays the other team twice. Following the regular season, the top four teams proceed to the playoffs, which include a single-elimination game and two qualifiers, concluding in the Championship game between the winners of Qualifier 1 and Qualifier 2.
The Bangladesh Cricket Board introduced the Bangladesh Premier League in 2011, succeeding the discontinuation of its predecessor organization, the 2009/10 National Cricket League Twenty20. The opening game took place In February 2012, having games held in Dhaka and Chittagong. The chairman of the BPL’s Governing Council supervises the organization. The defending champion, Comilla Victorians, earned their third title and became the joint most successful team with Franchises of Dhaka.
In this article, we will discuss the most sixes hit in an inning. West indies’ significant batsman Chris Gayle currently holds the record for most sixes hit in a T20 inning, with an astonishing figure of 18 in a single inning. The Caribbean star batsman hit the milestone during the final game of the 2017 Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) involving Dhaka Dynamites & Rangpur Riders. Gayle struck 146 runs against 69 balls in the final for his franchise Rangpur Riders, comprising five fours and eighteen sixes.
IPL Records for the Most Sixes in an Innings:
| Batsman | Team | Score | Sixes | Opponent | Venue | Season |
| Chris Gayle | Rangpur Riders | 146* | 18 | Dhaka Dynamites | Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium | 2017 |
| Chris Gayle | Rangpur Riders | 126* | 14 | Khulna Titans | 2017 | |
| Chris Gayle | Dhaka Gladiators | 114 | 12 | Sylhet Royals | 2013 | |
| Chris Gayle | Barisal Burners | 116 | 11 | Dhaka Gladiators | 2012 | |
| Tamim Iqbal | Comilla Victorians | 141* | 11 | Dhaka Dynamites | 2019 |
Chris Gayle in the match of 2017 against Dhaka Dynamites
Rangpur Riders ended their 20 overs in the Bangladesh Premier League with a total of 206/1 when Chris Gayle smashed an unbeaten 146 off 69 balls. Gayle smacked 18 sixes throughout his innings, surpassing his record for most sixes in a T20 inning. In the 2013 IPL, the 38-year-old Jamaican struck 17 sixes during his record-breaking 66-ball 175 not out for Royal Challengers Bangalore against Pune Warriors.
He amassed 11,000 runs in the shortest version of the game and was the very first player to collect 20 centuries in T20s. He additionally became the first player in the Bangladesh Premier League to collect 100 maximums.
Chris Gayle in the match of 2017 against Khulna Titans
Khulna’s total of 167 was projected to be a competitive total, and that perception was reaffirmed at the start of Rangpur’s innings when Sohag Gazi was caught for one and Brendon McCullum was dropped for zero only within third over.
Gayle hit fifty in just 23 deliveries with a pull shot off Mohammad Irfan, and he opted to stay and win the game for Rangpur. In many aspects, it was a calm performance from the West Indian, who illustrated how to pace an inning in the game’s shortest version. While Gayle was ravaging, Mohammed Mithun, who came in after McCullum was knocked, knocked a solid 36-ball 30. Gayle concluded with a century in just 45 deliveries, surpassing the 168-run goal.
Chris Gayle in the match of 2013 against Sylhet Royals
The West Indies batsman blasted five fours and twelve sixes in his scintillating 46-ball century, that single-handedly propelled the Dhaka Gladiators to the final of the Bangladesh Premier League’s second season. Sylhet Royals, headed by team captain Mushfiqur Rahim, worked valiantly, but Dhaka’s 197 were four runs too far. From the 14th over onwards, the newly presented Suhrawardi Shuvo was smashed for three sixes and a boundary. Gayle struck eight sixes and a four over the following four overs. Gayle stormed from 55 to 100 in just 10 balls owing to his tremendous agility. Gayle was dropped at short third-man on 99, but he hit his century a ball later in that over.
Chris Gayle in the match of 2012 against Dhaka Gladiators
Barisal has come a long way to reach the final, an elevation that some foresaw with Chris Gayle in the lineup at the start. Chris hit 116 runs in that match with a total of 11 sixes.
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Tamim Iqbal in the match 2019 against Dhaka Dynamites
The Dhaka Dynamites got everything a T20 franchise would need to win the Bangladesh Premier League final. Comilla Victorians, on the other hand, did have something better in the guise of a single player. Opener Tamim Iqbal batted potentially the greatest innings of the sixth edition, which featured hundreds from Ab de Villiers, Alex Hales, and Evin Lewis, and nearly single-handedly won the championship for Comilla as they edged Dhaka by 17 runs.
Tamim’s flawless batting during an unmatched 61-ball 141, the second-highest individual score in the BPL following Rangpur Riders opener Chris Gayle’s 146 in the preceding edition’s final versus Dhaka, captivated a packed Mirpur crowd.
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